NEWSLETTER Anthroposophical Society in America

Summer 1979

Published by the Anthroposophical Society in America for its Members Gisela O’Neil, Editor Ilse Gruenberg, Editorial Assistance Florin Lowndes, Layout Final Dates for Receiving Copy: Philip Raiten, Typesetting March 1 — Spring Issue June 1 — Summer Issue Rudolf Steiner quotes are published in agreement with the Nach September 1— Autumn Issue lassverwaltung. December 1 — Winter Issue

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Hans-Werner Schroeder The End of the Century and Ahriman’s Incarnation 2 in the Following Millennium Alan Howard Clairvoyance,“Clair-thinking” and “Clair-judgment” 5

Rudolf Steiner On Picturing Our Fellow Man to Overcome the Antisocial 7 Modern Soul Life (from a lecture) George O'Neil and Life of the Cosmos in the Ages of Man 8 Gisela O'Neil —Hierarchies and Human Destiny (The Human Life, Part 9)

PUBLICATIONS

Sarah Burton Rudolf Steiner & Marie Steiner: Creative Speech 14 Gisela O'Neil Rudolf Steiner: Christ at the M ystery of Golgotha 14 and Christ in the Twentieth Century Rene M. Querido Rudolf Steiner: An Esoteric Cosmology 14 Diana Cohen Daisy Aldan: A Golden Story 15 Arthur Zajonc Friedrich Benesch: Ascension 16 Nathan Melniker Anthroposophical Review 16

MEMBERSHIP

Henry Barnes Report by the Chairman of the Council to the Annual Meeting 17 Nancy Root Minutes of the Annual Meeting 18 New Members 20 Who Can Help Us to Locate Members Who Have Moved? 20 Theodore Van Vliet In Memoriam: William Talbot Gardner 21 Other Members Who Have Crossed the Threshold of Death 22

REPORTS

Nathan Melniker Flashes from the Past — a 1935 Report 23 Alfred H. Bartles The Eurythmeum Stuttgart Participates in the German Premiere 23 of “Paradise Lost” David Adams International Youth Conference, Kings Langley, England 24 Patrick Wakef ord-Evans Youth Conference in Fair Oaks/Sacramento 24 Theodore Van Vliet Day by Day at the Goetheanum — 25 from Puppets to Philosophy (Letter by R. Querido) Attack and Defense of Anthroposophy 25 (Award Citation) U.S. Camphill Communities Receive 1979 Service Award 26 of the AAMD Mary Rubach A Workshop on Artistic Method at Harlemville 27 Rene M. Querido Sacramento Center Has a New Name 27 Rene M. Querido Notes of Developments in Sacramento Area 28 Hermann C. Rubach Activities in San Francisco Bay Area 28 Mary Ann Logan Texas Conference 29 Eileen McGarrigle News from Austin, Texas 29 (Announcement) Rudolf Steiner Seminars 29

1 The End of the Century and Another statement from a lecture in Dornach on Ahriman’s Incarnation in the January 15, 1917.2 “We must be serious about understanding these matters, Following Millennium we must be completely and utterly serious about them. This understanding implies that a number of people must summon by HANS-WERNER SCHROEDER up the fortitude with all the efforts of their personality actual­ ly to oppose the surging wave of materialism. This will become necessary because the materialism permeating the industrial and commercial impulses will unite with the content of other (From “Mitteilungen aus der anthroposophischen retarded impulses. These in turn become increasingly caught Arbeit in Deutschland,” Michaelmas 1978. Published up in materialism and are originating from the Chinese-Jap- with permission. Translation by Maria St. Goar.) anese, but mainly the Japanese, elements. ... Coming over from Asia, this will be a special form of materialism. In each and every instance we must clearly understand the need to From year to year our glance is increasingly di­ resist with all of one’s strength the floodtides of materialism. rected toward events that are expected at the end of Everyone can do this. The endeavor will indeed bear fruit---- the century. I will here attempt to bring together What is needed to counteract materialism which, after all, has a legitimate purpose, can be summed up in two sentences. In Rudolf Steiner’s statements concerning these events. the future, during the fifth post-Atlantean period, the world The view is frequently voiced that Rudolf Steiner sup­ will ever more be permeated by the industrial and commercial posedly predicted the incarnation of Ahriman at the elements; but the counter-element, the opposing pole, must end of the century. To my knowledge no such state­ also exist. Human beings must be present who, by compre­ hending the conditions, work on the opposite side.” ment exists. Finally, from a lecture of November 18, 1917 in The Period After the End of the Century and Dornach.3 the Third Millennium “Materialistic views are on the increase and will have the best As world events draw near the end of the century, chance to flourish if people begin to believe that they are no longer materialists. The increase in materialism will continue for four or it becomes increasingly important to look beyond these five hundred years. We have to realize absolutely clearly, as I have events as well. Our view is all too easily directed only so often said, that this is the case. Humanity will find peace if we towards what is closest at hand, and we tend to forget are fully aware, and in the life of the spirit work in the knowledge, that events of primary significance have also been pre­ that the task of the fifth post-Atlantean period is to create materialistic existence out of the whole stream of human develop­ dicted for the ensuing millennium. These concern the at­ ment; but for that very reason we must create the more spiritual ex­ titudes and the actions of those human beings connect­ istence in opposition to it.” ed with anthroposophy. To begin with, I would like to More such quotes could be cited. In order that this pre­ quote several statements by Rudolf Steiner relating to sentation will not become one-sided, I would like to add the events that are expected after the end of the century, following excerpt from the lecture of January 8, 1918 in events we should be conscious of with equal intensity. Dornach.4 It demonstrates that positive aspects must First, a reference from a lecture in Berlin, dated April also be visualized and connected with the events of the 4 , 1916.1 future. “After the year 2000, it will not be long before mankind “It may also be said that compared with the various will have to experience strange things, things that today are periods of post-Atlantean time ... our fifth period is ... from only gradually beginning to manifest. Matters are such that certain aspects the greatest age, one that brings most of all to from the East and from the West two polar extremes are head­ humanity, one that harbors within it immense possibilities for ing toward future development. ... The intention will be to the evolution and existence of mankind. And precisely solve the riddle of what a child represents; a sort of ritual or through what man develops very specially in this age as cult will, to begin with, be connected with the rearing of the shadow side of the spiritual life, he takes the way, and can, if he child. This is under way in the East. This cult will naturally proceeds rightly, find the way into the spiritual world. In par­ reach over into Europe. It will cause the development of the ticular he can find the way to his true, his highest human goal. highest esteem for what is termed ‘genius,’ a search for genius. Evolutionary possibilities are in our time very great, greater ... The majority of mankind, however, will be subject to the in­ from a certain aspect than they were in former phases of post- fluence coming from the West, from America. This influence Atlantean evolution.” tends towards a different development which, in regard to what is yet to come, makes itself felt today in idealistic traces Ahrimans Incarnation in the Third Millennium only, in pleasant beginnings. We can say that the present age Against the background of these statements by is quite well off in comparison to what is yet to come — once the Rudolf Steiner, his words concerning the incarnation of Western development increasingly will blossom forth. After the year 2000 will have passed, it won’t be long before think­ Ahriman can appear in their full significance. He de­ ing—not directly, but in a certain sense — will be forbidden. A picts this fact in seven lectures of the year 1919 and in­ law will proceed from America with the purpose of suppress­ dicates the preparations occurring in the present ing all individual thinking. A start in this direction has been towards this event. Here is a list of the individual lec­ made by purely materialistic medicine today where the soul no longer is permitted to act and where, merely on the basis of ex­ tures: Zurich, Oct. 27, 19195; Dornach Nov. 1 and 2, ternal experiments, the human being is treated like a 19196; Bern, Nov. 4, 19196; Dornach, Nov. 15, 19196; machine.” Stuttgart, Dec. 25 and 28, 1919.7

2 What is of interest to us is the actual time given by lectures for statements concerning the end of the cen­ Rudolf Steiner for this incarnation. I quote the main tury, one is surprised to discover that such statements statements: were made only in the very last period, namely in the “Just as there was an incarnation of Lucifer at the begin­ Karma lectures. To my knowledge, only a few sparse in­ ning of the third pre-Christian millennium, as there was the Christ Incarnation at the time of the Mystery of Golgatha, so dications can be found in the preceding years and there will be a first incarnation of the Ahriman being some decades. Here I shall quote the passages known to me. time after our present earthly existence, in fact, in the third The first excerpt is from a lecture held in Stutt­ post-Christian millennium___Ahriman, however, has been at gart on March 7, 1914.8 The transcript is probably in­ work since the middle of the fifteenth century and will in­ crease in strength until an actual incarnation of Ahriman will complete. Rudolf Steiner indicates here that each time take place in the Western civilization___Ahriman will ap­ a millennium draws to the close, a particularly vehement pear in human form.” (Nov. 27) attack occurs on the part of Lucifer and Ahriman. As an What is especially significant here is the state­ example he cites the end of the first Christian millennium ment that Ahriman’s incarnation in regard to time is , stressing the fact that proofs concerning the parallel to Lucifer’s incarnation, which occurred in Asia existence of God came into use, especially the one by at the beginning of the third pre-Christian millennium. Anselm of Canterbury; and he points to Emperor Hein­ Correspondingly, the third millennium A.D., in a general rich’s journey to Canossa, saying, “This is when the of­ way, is designated for Ahriman’s incarnation. This mo­ ficial Church adopted customs that aroused scornful ment in time is mentioned in the later lecture: laughter among the Ahrimanic spirits.” If one ex­ “Before only a part of the third millennium of the post- amines these indications more closely, it can be noticed Christian era has elapsed, there will be, in the West, an actual that they refer not only to the end of the millennium but incarnation of Ahriman. Ahriman in the flesh___A Being like Ahriman, who will incarnate in the West in time to come___ that they point beyond it. Anselm of Canterbury lived And the time has now come for individual men to know which from 1033 to 1109 A.D., already a whole century later; tendencies and events around them are machinations of the journey to Canossa took place in 1077, therefore Ahriman, helping him to prepare for his approaching incarna­ also within the new millennium. From this we can see tion. . . . Now we are facing an incarnation of Ahriman in the third millennium.” (Nov. 1) that Rudolf Steiner does not refer specifically to the And further: end of the millennium as an exact point of time when “What is now in preparation and will quite definitely speaking here of the onslaught of the Ahrimanic and come to pass on Earth in a none too distant future, is an actual Luciferic powers. It is important to keep this in mind as incarnation of Ahriman.” (Nov. 4) the text continues: Here the impression is conveyed that this event will take place not at the end, but rather during the “As we draw near the year 2000, once again the Ahri­ first part or even at the beginning of the third millennium manic spirits make their influence felt. Evolution proceeds like an oscillating pendulum. In the year 1000, people awaited . The last statement concerning the time is the the end of the world; in the year 2000, the exact opposite is ex­ following: pected. In the year 3000, people will again await the end of the ‘“A time will come in the future, when, just as Lucifer world, but the world will have become such that whole nations was incorporated in the East in an earthly personality, so in will long for this end. Without being emotional one can declare the West there will take place an earthly incarnation of Ahri­ that the people of Europe are heading for disastrous times!... man himself. This time is approaching. Ahriman will appear, In the past, for instance, around the year 1000, men had to be­ objectively, on the Earth.” (Dec. 25) lieve what Lucifer and Ahriman would have them believe, be­ So much for Rudolf Steiner’s statements of 1919 cause human beings as yet did not bear within themselves the true, conscious Christ impulse. We no longer need to believe concerning the time of Ahriman’s incarnation. (To my them; instead we should receive this new Christ impulse into knowledge no other statements exist. A statement by ourselves of our own free will so that we can offer resistance to Rudolf Steiner concerning Ahriman’s appearance Lucifer and Ahriman. In the twentieth century it will come to already at the end of this century is not known to me. If pass that Lucifer and Ahriman will in particular usurp the designation of being Christian. People who no longer possess such an indication can be found, I would be grateful for any trace of true Christianity will call themselves Christians, the information.) and they will rage against those who adhere not merely to On the basis of these quotes we can conclude that what Christ once said according to the tradition of the Gospels, but for whom the words hold good, ‘I am with you always, to it must be a misunderstanding if people today speak, as the close of the age.’ The latter will adhere to the living, if it were a definite fact, of Ahriman’s incarnation in continually-working Christ impulse. They will experience the regard to the end of this century. Instead, it does seem wrath of the opponents. Confusion and devastation will that the evidence must be viewed in a more discrim­ abound when the year 2000 approaches. Then, not one piece of wood will be left in place in our building here in Dornach. inating manner, and this study offers the basis for such Everything will be destroyed and laid waste. We shall look an approach. I shall return to this topic again at the end. down upon it from the spiritual world. When the year 2086 dawns, however, everywhere in Europe we shall see buildings arising dedicated to spiritual aims that will be replicas of our The End of the Century building in Dornach with its two cupolas. This will be the In searching through the whole of Rudolf Steiner’s golden age when spiritual life will flourish.”

3 Concerning the above wording, it must be remem­ • The working together of Platonists and Aristo­ bered that it was probably not transcribed verbatim. telians. Another mention of the end of the millennium is in the • Reincarnation of Rudolf Steiner’s contemporary lecture “The Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral pupils. Body.” (Oct. 9 , 1918) Here Rudolf Steiner speaks of the In this context no mention is made of Ahriman’s in­ inpouring of the impulses of the Angelic world into the carnation, but mention is made of the inpouring activ­ astral body of man. The danger exists that this inflow ity of Ahrimanic spirits to the point where Ahriman, in cannot consciously be grasped by the human being. the role of author, will inspire human consciousness “Here lies the great danger for the age of the Spiritual Soul. This is what might still happen if, before the beginning of and has indeed done so in the case of Nietzsche. I would the third millennium, men were to refuse to turn to the spiritual like to point to one particular passage that once again life. The third millennium begins with the year 2000, so it is only opens the perspective into the next millennium, going a short time ahead of us. It might still happen that the aim of beyond the end of the century: the Angels in their work would have to be achieved by means of the sleeping bodies of men — instead of through men wide “In the course of the twentieth century, when the first awake.” century after the end of Kali Yuga has elapsed, humanity will either stand at the grave of all civilization — or at the begin­ As described in the further course of the lecture, ning of that Age when in the souls of men who in their hearts this would give rise to complete perversion of human­ ally Intellectuality with Spirituality, Michael’s battle will be ity. fought to victory.”11 (July 19) From the lecture of July 30, 1920, held in Stutt- Here is specific mention of the fact that Michael’s gart9: battle, which shall transform intellectuality into “With the very beginning of the third millennium we spirituality, must be continued into the next millennium. might experience that mankind will have developed in such a To me, this perspective relates organically to the state­ way that materialism will have become the correct outlook. ments of 1919 concerning the incarnation of Ahriman. Today it is not a question of disproving materialism, because materialism is in the process of eventually becoming true; rather, it is a question of making it to be untrue — otherwise it Possible Conclusions and Questions will become a fact because it is more than a false theory.” Dwelling upon the above statements by Rudolf And finally, from a lecture held in Dornach on Steiner, we can come to the conclusion that in the case August 6 , 192110: of the predictions concerning the end of the century “If the development were to continue in this consistent and the incarnation of Ahriman, we are dealing with way, we would reach, at the end of the twentieth century, the two events occurring at different times. (It could be war of all against all, particularly in that region of human pro­ gress where so-called recent civilization has arisen. We may al­ possible that with his remarks in the Karma lectures, ready see what has thus developed, we may see it raying out Rudolf Steiner wanted to initiate a kind of correction to from the East and asserting itself over a great part of the his earlier statements of 1919 concerning the point of Earth. There is an inner connection. We should be able to see time, since in the course of this century events have un­ it.” folded faster than could originally be expected, and So much for the statements, made prior to the thus the stronger influence of Ahriman must necessari­ year 1924, by Rudolf Steiner concerning the end of the ly occur earlier. This possibility perhaps should at least century. be left open.) The Karma Lectures In any case, it seems important that anthroposo- Just a few weeks before the end of his public lec­ phists look not only towards the end of the century, but ture activities, Rudolf Steiner begins to speak about even today become conscious of the events that are to the end of the century. Without exception, these pre­ follow. May these excerpts from the literature help to sentations are found in the “Karma Lectures” (1924) in serve this purpose. connection with the mission of Michael and the task of In the further study of these and related state­ the Michael-followers in regard to the shaping of our ments the following view can result that may here be cultural future. Rudolf Steiner starts out on July 18 in suggested with all caution. At the end of the century Arnheim, with further statements there on July 19 and we shall confront the decisive crisis of our civilization. 20; then in Dornach on July 28 and August 1, also in This crisis will contain a challenge to our will The Dornach on August 3, 4, and 8; then in Torquay on chaotic disintegration of circumstances generally, the August 14, in London on August 27; and finally in Dor­ “War of All Against All” (see quote from Aug. 6 , 1921) nach on September 16. will threaten to sweep away anything spiritual, espe­ The themes are: cially the foundations and institutions born of the spir­ • The crisis of civilization at the end of the cen­ itual life. If that were to come about, then the first tury. prerequisite for the full success of the Ahriman in­ • The culmination of the anthroposophic move­ carnation would be fulfilled. This prerequisite will not ment. be attained so long as anthroposophists work together.

4 The anthroposophic movement is to achieve a cul­ Clairvoyance, “Clair-Thinking” and mination towards the end of the century (Karma Lec­ “Clair-Judgment” tures); it must be anchored through the cooperation of a great number of individuals in such a way that it simply by ALAN HOWARD cannot be swept away. The crucial factor will be the human will to stand united and to act together out of spiritual strength. The Platonists and the Aristotelians are to unite in this will. Rudolf Steiner has said that in this twentieth cen­ tury, especially from about the middle of it onward, This, perhaps, is the proper place to report a con­ more and more people would appear who, at a com­ versation that Anna Mahn had with Rudolf Steiner in paratively early age, would show signs of clairvoyance. 1920: He added that in some cases this would be the first con­ “When, for the last time, around 1920, I could speak with Rudolf Steiner, he said, deeply serious: ‘You must now turn to tact with the etheric Christ. another main task which shall no longer be painting. I now give As there is no reason to assume that these people you another task. In all the work you have to do, take special will be confined to card-carrying members of the care that the members stay together. The leadership must be Anthroposophical Society, but may spring from the mindful of keeping the members unified. It is the respon­ sibility of the leadership of a smaller or larger group to see to it most unlikely backgrounds, an interesting question that the members find a way to proceed harmoniously arises as to how they will be received. Very much may together in the common work that has to be accomplished. The depend on it, for them and for us; and particularly how Society must face the world as a unity. Above else, truth must they are received by those of us of an earlier generation prevail. Justified objections must be clarified and not simply ignored. Be watchful in this regard, the Society will thank you who are not so gifted. later for it. Do not fail in this.’ Some of these young people — for they will invar­ “As he said this, Rudolf Steiner looked at me seriously, iably be young — are in for a hard time. If they are not fixing me with his eyes, and repeated this admonition three seduced by the fawning attentions of simple-minded or times loudly and slowly, ‘Do not fail.’ ” excitable followers and led into all kinds of extrava­ If the crisis at the end of the century is to be met, a gances of messianic egoism, many of them will be further challenge must be faced — a challenge to our regarded as psychopaths or emotionally unbalanced, cognitive powers. Ahriman can take over only if he is and may even be confined in mental institutions until not recognized. To truly recognize him, however, re­ they are “cured.” The future spiritual development of quires the transformation of intellectuality into spiritu­ mankind may very well depend on whether they, and ality. We all find ourselves in the midst of this conflict those of us who lack such gifts but who have been stu­ which, in the sense of the above quoted passage, will at­ dying Steiner for years, can get together to our mutual tain its most intense and final actuality in the following advantage in the further development of spiritual millennium: science. “In the course of the twentieth century, when the first century after the end of Kali Yuga has elapsed, humanity will For clairvoyance itself is not enough. This is made either stand at the grave of all civilization — or at the beginn­ very clear in the first few pages of Theosophy, where ing of that Age when in the souls of men who in their hearts al­ the relative possibilities of the seer, the knower and the ly Intellectuality with Spirituality, Michael’s battle will be teacher are clearly set out. The seer is only a “see-er,” fought to victory.”11 that is one who perceives in the supersensible. He is not necessarily a knower as well, any more than one who could only see in this world would be able to expatiate FOOTNOTES: knowledgeably on the phenomena he sees. He would 1. Bibl. #167 (German). 2. Bibl. #174 (German). still need the elaboration of thought and understanding 3. Secret Brotherhoods, London. to make his perceptions meaningful to himself and 4. Ancient Myths—Their Meaning and Connection with Evolution, Toronto, 1971. others. 5. “The Ahrimanic Deception.” What then should be our attitude to such a young 6. The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman. Man’s Responsibility for person if he should appear, say, in an anthroposophical the Earth. Vancouver, 1976. 7. The Cosmic New Year, London, 1938. community, or in an institute for Waldorf training, or 8. Bilder okkulter Siegel und Saeulen. even in a Waldorf school as the friend and companion of 9. Bibl. #197 (German). 10. “The Remedy for Our Diseased Civilization ” Anthrop. News Sheet, teachers? Vol. 7 , 1939, Suppl. 2/3. Any arbitrary and immediate rejection, any 11. Karmic Relationships, Vol. IV, London, 1957. refusal to have anything to do with such a person, any kind of reference to atavism and the like would be both uncharitable and high handed. Yet the danger of this hap­ pening is only too real if we aren’t prepared for it beforehand. Some of the best of people can give

5 themselves over to “witch-hunt” hysteria, and even hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it uphold their action with what seem the best of reasons. comes nor whither it goeth.” Long years of study of anthroposophy can all too easily Everything will depend on trained observation. A give one the illusion that one is qualified to pontificate new age has dawned; an age of a science of the spirit in on what is true clairvoyance from the most superficial which we are all obliged to be scientists, not devotees evidence, or even no evidence at all! or inquisitors. Hitherto there has never been a This is particularly likely to happen if the young messenger of the spirit, from the Christ downward, person should be uneducated, “unanthroposophical,” who has not been as bitterly rejected on the one hand, or if he should be of a somewhat uncouth or even only as he has been inordinately venerated on the other. unprepossessing appearance; and yet there is nothing Man has always been all too prone to believe good or in the qualifications of seership to say that the seer evil of the same phenomenon. We have to be able to should appear in a suit of formal cut, with a flowing make judgments according to the facts, and knowledge necktie, and perhaps an attractive lock of hair falling of the spiritual can only proceed healthily by a quiet negligently across his brow. A modern seer could very waiting on the facts until their inner nature is revealed. well appear in jeans, T-shirt, and long hair and beard If partisan pre-judgments, whipped up by feeling, without being any the less a genuine seer. establish themselves among us, then there is no hope of Our first task, surely, would be to meet him kindly a spiritual science. Only a proliferation of those bitter and listen carefully to what he had to say, rigidly re­ and internecine conflicts that have plagued the jecting any possible prejudices that might want to arise spiritual life of man for centuries will prevail. in us. If he should be “phoney,” there should be no dif­ When the loyal upholders of the ancient Jewish ficulty in finding that out quite easily and acting accor­ traditions were plagued by those pesky early Christ­ dingly. What is false, whether of this world or the next, ians (for they were “pesky,” although Christian), and must reveal itself in some way if we will only keep clear the Sanhedrin was at sixes and sevens what to do with headed, and give it a chance to show itself. If it should them, it was the great scholar and teacher of the apos­ be genuine, we are the only ones who will be the losers tle Paul, Gamaliel, who said, “If this course or this work by any precipitate judgment. be of men it will come to nought; but if it be of God, ye If we are unable to do this, then we are likely to cannot overthrow it.” create as strong and unreasoning a faction in support of To live in charity with all men whatever their such a seer, as ours would be in rejecting him. Such a views is not only an anthroposophical but a Christian young person might then be immediately swept up as a ideal. It is inevitable that our views will differ, and on second Steiner or even Christ by one side, while the nothing perhaps so widely as on the manifestation of rest would revile him as the embodiment of all evil. All clairvoyance in this or that person. If those manifesta­ hope of balanced educated judgment would then fly out tions are “of men” they will come to nought; if they are of the window; and the rival parties would before long “of God” it is our business to be ready to acknowledge be at one another’s throats to the confusion of all con­ them whatever source they come from. No evil can hap­ cerned. Whatever good work was being done among pen to us if they are false; but much good may be lost to them hitherto would be disrupted. Life-long friend­ us if they are genuine and true and we ignore them; and ships would be broken; words would be uttered that evil can only be compounded if clairvoyant phenomena might never be recalled; and, if the news should spread lead us to abandon our humanity and common sense, abroad — particularly if the newspapers got hold of and passionately take sides against each other in what it — the whole movement would be likely to be brought it is our business to evaluate together for the sake of into ridicule and contempt. Truth. It is our task as members of the Society, as In Rudolf Steiner’s Mystery Plays there is also a teachers in Waldorf schools, as students in an­ seer, Theodora. Two of the leading figures, Strader and throposophical groups to be able to bring a scientific Capesius, have definitely opposing views about her. judgment to bear on matters connected with spiritual But that doesn’t break up the community: Both Strader phenomena. That requires eternal vigilance, the co­ and Capesius continue their spiritual work together in operation of every one concerned, but above all a will­ mutual confidence and respect with their friends. ingness to listen to everyone’s opinion before coming to a conclusion. Hearsay and gossip-mongering should be anathema. As spiritual scientists we have a further obligation to remember that the form in which the spiritual will reveal itself in our time is none of our choosing, nor will it necessarily take place according to criteria previously laid down by ourselves. “The wind (pneuma, also spirit) bloweth where it listeth; thou

6 On Picturing Our Fellow Man the other person. At present we have not yet any in­ to Overcome the Antisocial tense interest in another person. It is for this reason that we criticize him, that we pass judgment on him, Modern Soul Life* that we form our judgments according to sympathies and antipathies and not according to the objective pic­ by RUDOLF STEINER ture that leaps to meet us from the other. This capacity to be mystically stimulated in a cer­ (Modern soul life is by nature antisocial We tain way as we confront another person will come to pass each other by. By awakening intense interest realization. It will enter as a special social impulse into in the other person, his spiritual picture can arise human life. On the one hand, the consciousness soul is within us. Then, and then only, will brotherhood striving to come in an antisocial way to complete be achieved.) domination in this fifth post-Atlantean epoch. On the other hand, something else is striving outward from the nature of man, that is, a capacity to form pictures of You may look at such a sculptural form as that of the human beings with whom we live. It is here that the our Group: the Representative of Man, Lucifer and social impulses arise, the social instincts. The simple Ahriman. There you confront for the first time what is fact is that these things lie at a far greater depth than is working in the whole human being, because man is the ordinarily supposed when people talk about the social state of balance between the luciferic and the ahri­ and the antisocial. manic. If you permeate yourself in actual life with the Now the question may arise in your minds as to how impulse to confront every person in such a way that we shall gradually attain to the capacity of causing the you correctly see this trinity in him, then do you picture of the other person to leap to meet us. It is in begin to understand him. This is an essential capa­ life that we must gain this capacity. Jehovah capacities city, bearing within itself the impulse to evolve in are given to us at birth; we evolve them in the embry­ this fifth post-Atlantean epoch. onic life. The culture of the future will not make things Thus we shall no longer pass by one another as one so comfortable for people. The capacities a person must specter passes another, so that we form no picture of manifest will have to be developed during the course of each other but merely define the other person with our his life. abstract concepts. The truth is that we do nothing more at the present time. We pass by each other as if we . . . But this must be acquired; it is not born in us. If were specters. One specter forms the conception, “That we should continue simply to cultivate those character­ is a nice fellow,” and the other, “That is not such a nice istics that are born in us, we should continue within the fellow” . . . “That is a bad man” . . . “That is a good man,” limits of a mere blood culture, not the culture to which — all sorts of such abstract concepts. In the intercourse could be ascribed in the true sense of the word human of man to man we have nothing but a bundle of abstract brotherhood. Only when we carry the other human be­ concepts. This is the essential thing that has entered in­ ing within us can we really speak of human brother­ to humanity out of the Old Testament form of life: hood, which has appeared thus far only in an abstract “Make unto thyself no image.” It must inevitably lead word. When we form a picture of the other person, to an antisocial life if we should continue it further. which is implanted as a treasure in our souls, then we What is flowing out from the innermost nature of carry within the realm of our soul life something from man, striving toward realization, is that, when one in­ him just as in the case of a bodily brother we carry dividual confronts another, a picture shall stream forth around something through the common blood. This in a certain way from the other person, a picture of that elective affinity as the basis of social life must take the special form of balance manifested individually by place in this concrete way of the mere blood affinity. everyone. But this requires, of course, the heightened This is something that really must evolve. It must de­ interest that I have often described to you as the foun­ pend upon the human will to determine how brother­ dation of social life, which each person should take in hood shall be awakened among men.

*From a lecture given in Dornach, December 7,1918. Newly published by the Anthroposphic Press in The Challenge of the Times. Trans­ lation by Olin D. Wannemaker.

7 Life of the Cosmos in the Ages of Man known as art objects of the past or as mythological —Hierarchies and Human Destiny* biblical figures, but there is no place for them in the life of modern man. As to archangels taking part in the destiny of nations, or the Elohim having a role in men’s by GEORGE O’NEIL and GISELA O’NEIL coming of age, such notions can be taken as poetry — which in the highest sense they are — but to take them for “real” and to convey this to non-anthroposophic REVIEW friends, would mean being relegated among the daft. Some very strange cosmic and earthly things have If we are honest to ourselves, most of us, even a way of being taken for granted when commonplace after years of studying and living with anthroposophy, enough. The moon’s disk, for instance, just covering the have a rather abstract relationship to Hierarchical Be­ sun at an eclipse. Or crystals of ice floating on water, in­ ings. We give lip service to their existence and evoke stead of sinking, unique among solids. But stranger by their names in recitations; but their existence is rather far are the wonders of man’s earthly memories being vague for most of us compared to the concreteness of recorded indelibly. Recorded somehow as living pic­ the kingdoms of nature that live below man as the tures, as sound and feeling, somewhere within his or­ Kingdoms of the Hierarchies work above him. ganism—to emerge as an expanding panorama, a Even in ordinary life, how difficult it is to under­ drama of events, an illuminated scroll of scenes accord­ stand someone wiser and more experienced than we ing to seven-year periods. The wonder of wonders is are, how much more difficult to understand beings so certainly man! far above us that we have no means of comparison. Not It was of the way in which these scenes of life having even the power of thought to grasp an existence manifest to the Initiate’s view that our previous study so totally different from our own, how difficult to grasp spoke (Spring issue). There we saw how man’s life-per- our own existence made possible and maintained by iods, re-experienced in the memory tableau, are meta­ these beings high above man. morphosed through “Inspiration” into actual organs'of “Let us picture the human being. It is only in his spiritual perception —thereby opening the gateways sense and intellectual knowledge that he extends be­ for spirit research into the planetary spheres. Indicat­ yond the Hierarchies who are within him. In respect of ing also how it is that from these realms the forces and all that lies behind his intellect, he is filled with the powers arise that work within man’s life, becoming Third Hierarchy; in all that lies behind his feeling, he is traits and aptitudes, and even conditions of destiny. filled with the Second Hierarchy; in all that lies behind The crucial questions still untouched concern the his willing, he is filled with the First Hierarchy. We are Beings responsible: how the creative Hierarchies are to therefore in very truth within the Hierarchies and it is be seen through the memory tableau once it becomes only in respect of our sensory organs and intellect that transparent, affecting the different life periods; how we extend beyond their realm. It is actually as though they are working in the Cosmos weaving the destiny we were swimming, with the head rising a little out of pattern for future incarnations of men; how all this the water. With our senses and our intellect we rise out macrocosmic order and design, inherent in the spheres, of the ocean of the activities of the Hierarchies.”1 is reflected down into the rhythmic pattern of human Restricting ourselves to the narrower theme at encounters, into those events of man’s microcosmic ex­ istence, his individual destiny. hand, namely the influences of the planetary spheres in connection with the Hierarchies as they become opera­ Hence, with the help and guidance of Initiation Sci­ tive in the successive seven-year periods of the human ence let us venture in thought into the realm of Beings life, we find in the Karma lectures given in Paris the fol­ and through the gateways into the Spheres. lowing summary of these gateways to the heavens: REDISCOVERY OF THE HIERARCHIES “Looking back to early childhood with Initiation- In mythological times man could speak, as a matter knowledge ... we see at the same time what has been of course, of greater and lesser beings performing their wrought in man by the world of the Angels. Think of the wonderful beauty of some of the conceptions which tasks in nature and in the direction of men’s lives. It exist in the simple hearts of men and are actually con­ was quite “natural” to do so because they were seen, firmed by the higher wisdom of Initiation. We speak of and because men were still dependent, as children are today, upon outer guidance; but long ago the times did how the activities of the Angels weave through a child’s first years of life; and when we look back in change, and today it is highly “unnatural,” to be sure, order to study the Moon-region we actually see our even in serious religious circles. Angelic beings are childhood and with it the weaving work of the Angels. *This is part IX in a series on The Human Life and a continuation of the Then, when stronger forces begin to operate in the theme in the previous issue. human being, when he reaches the school age, we per­

8 ceive the work of the Archangels. They are important DESTINY IN THE MAKING for us when we are studying the Mercury-existence, for No knowledge of man, no real understanding of then we are in the world of the Archangels. There fol­ human life is possible without knowledge of prebirth lows the age of puberty and the period from approxi­ and afterdeath existences, without reckoning with the mately 14 to 21.... We learn that the Hierarchy of the alternation between earthly and heavenly realms, the Archai, the Primal Forces, are the Beings specially as­ microcosmic contraction and the macrocosmic expan­ sociated with the Venus-existence. And here we realize sion. “For the totality of man's life consists in the ear­ a significant truth — again something that is particular­ thly existence between birth and death and the ex­ ly striking — namely, that the Beings associated with istence between death and new birth. This constitutes the Venus-existence after the age of puberty are those his life in its totality.”3 who, as Primal Forces, were concerned with the Both these states of Being are bound up with the genesis of the world itself, and in their reflection are planetary spheres. Man’s soul and spirit expand again active in the formation of the physical man in the through the cosmic spheres, and on Earth the spheres sequence of the generations. The relationship between unfold from within in seven-year rhythms. Destiny is the Cosmos and human life is revealed in this way. prepared in the expanses of the Cosmos and later lived “We gaze into the mysteries of the Sun-existence. out on Earth. One existence determines the other, ... Within this sphere there are Beings of three ranks: interwoven, though separate in time. The whole of the Exusiai, Dynamis and Kyriotetes.” Earth-life is preparation and determining cause for life The Beings of the higher Hierarchies begin to after death. Cosmic-life transmutes fruits and failures work manifestly: first the Thrones in the Mars-sphere; of Earth-life into new opportunities, new capacities and then the Cherubim in the Jupiter-sphere; and then the powers; with the goals of independence and mutuality, Seraphim in the Saturn-sphere.”2 freedom and love. Cosmic life is a vast and wonderful study, describ­ ed in many lecture cycles. Our special interest here is in the sequence of the influences working above and be­ low, for the order is the same in both realms, from Moon to Saturn. We are guided by the Third Hierarchy through Moon, Mercury, Venus; by the Second Hierar­ chy through the Sun-sphere; by the First Hierarchy through Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Above and below: the same sequence of planetary spheres and guiding Beings. But here the correspondence, although startling and challenging, ends, for the mode of existence in the Cosmos is so totally different from earthly life that we need new concepts to grasp the order of events and to attempt to see as a whole in thought, or graphically, this sequence. Before we try, let us explore a bit and summarize from the literature.

Metamorphosis at work: We want to explore the causative realm behind the phenomena of human bio­ graphy. There are three principles which no longer are in accord with human dignity: that of mere continuation from one life to the next, or repetition of the same (eastern); the notion of punishment (Jehovistic); and pure chance (mechanistic). A new concept is needed for man today, called metamorphosis, actually a develop­ ment of the Christian ideal of redemption and healing. The thought of how life experience is being trans­ formed in the Cosmos from one life to the next should therefore be kept in mind. To do this we learn to see things in process, in motion. We discover how moral ideas are transformed by the Hierarchies into drama­ SPHERES, HIERARCHIES, LIFE PER IODS tized pictures, and how these result in subtle motive

9 forces which later work as inner urge and intention in Transformation and compensation: A relatively an unfolding biography. Idea — Picture — Inner Drive. short period of time is spent in the spheres of Moon, Mercury and Venus with the Third Hierarchy, living Space and time: Our relation to both space and backwards the moral equivalent of time we spent time undergo changes. Not only does time become asleep on earth. Then hundreds of years are spent in space, as in the life-tableau where the events of a life­ the Sun-sphere with the Second Hierarchy, during the time are seen “all at once,” but space itself is trans­ first half designing and building our physical body for formed, the “inner” becoming an “outer.” the next life; in the second half, preparing our moral or Space as we know it is something all about us, we ethical substance. The mystery touched on here is that look up to the heavens above. We are centered within. of transformation, of strivings and attitudes becoming Imagine an inversion of space where we are the new faculties and powers, something we experience in periphery, where we surround and look down upon the small in the earthly educational process. world and the Beings. “Spherical man” was a motive Under the tutelage of the Third Hierarchy, “dur­ worked into the carvings of the First Goetheanum. The ing the first period. . . we are deeply occupied with our­ inner world of our soul life becomes an outer world be­ selves, for this Hierarchy has to do with our own inner low us, a stage upon which spiritual events are enacted life and being.” by the Hierarchies for our instruction. “But then a time comes when we feel how the Be­ ings of the Third Hierarchy . . . and the Beings of the Time takes on new qualities. Intensity of exper­ Second Hierarchy . . . are working together with us at ience can be felt as a contraction of time. It has been what we ourselves are to become in the next earthly said that everything is happening faster and faster to­ life. A mighty, awe-inspiring vista opens up before us.” day, that history is speeding up. Life in the Cosmos "Pictures come to us of what is proceeding among must in some way be an expansion of time, think of these Beings of the Third Hierarchy; but all these pic­ spending centuries in preparing an appropriate tures are related to ourselves. And gazing at these pic­ physical organism for the next life. Time normally goes tures of the deeds of the Third Hierarchy, it dawns forward, but apparently in sleep it goes backward, as it upon us that they represent the counter-part, the also does after death in the Lunar-sphere, where we counter-image of the attitude of soul, of the inner quali­ live our life backwards for about a third of the length of ty of mind and heart that characterized us in the last earthly life. earthly life___Our attitude, our feelings toward other Thus we have to do with expansion and contrac­ individuals, towards other earthly things, are now out­ tion, with forward and reverse flow. Goethe made use spread in the spiritual sphere of the Universe. And we of these notions in his study of plants, and we can sur­ become aware of what our thinking and our feeling sig­ mise from where he derived them. nify.” “As our life after death continues, we observe how Review and evaluation: The notion of evaluation is the Beings of the Second Hierarchy . . . are connected also essential. A continual process takes place daily with the faculties we have acquired in earthly life as during sleep, we awake knowing better! After death the fruits of our diligence, activity, interest in the we review our life as a great panorama during the first things and happenings of the Earth. For having cast in­ three days, and a second time during the decades in the to mighty pictures our interest and diligence during Lunar-sphere. Here it becomes an evaluation process the last earthly life,” they “then proceed to shape im­ that changes into the will to make good. The ancient im­ ages of the talents we shall possess in our next earthly age of a purifying fire, of katharsis, is at the root of any life.”4 evaluating. (How painful it often is to realize fully the Our thoughts and feelings, then, are the concern of consequences of what we have done, and how we have the Third Hierarchy; our faculties those of the Second done it, hence the almost universal tendency to avoid Hierarchy; but our deeds and their consequences those evaluation of past events and to concentrate instead on of the First Hierarchy. “Down below we behold the ac­ making new plans — where no pain is involved.) The tivities of spiritual Beings, of Seraphim, Cherubim and mirror is the spiritual symbol here, we see ourselves, Thrones. What are they doing? They show us, in pic­ we look back upon our life, as though in a mirror, unable tures, what our experiences with individuals with to make any changes. whom we had some relationship in the previous Review, evaluation, and forming of new intentions, incarnation will have to become .. . in order that mutual these are all aspects of this cosmic process of meta­ compensation will have been made for what happened morphosis. And we do it ourselves, we are our own between us. And from the way in which these Beings transformers, with the help of course of guidance: first work in cooperation, we realize that great problems are of the Moon Teachers and then of the three great there being solved. When I have dealings with an in­ kingdoms of the Hierarchies. dividual in some earthly life, I myself prepare the com­

10 pensatory adjustment. The work performed by prefigure the fulfillment of past deeds for the coming Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones merely ensures that life. “And the knowledge gradually dawns upon us that the compensation will be made, that it will become in what comes to pass in cosmic evolution among the reality. It is these Beings also who ensure that the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones our karma is being other individual .. . is led to me in the same way as I am lived out in the Heavens before we can live it out on led to him.”4 Earth Thus in superearthly realms our karma is liv­ ed through in advance by the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones. In very truth the Gods are the Creators of the THE SCRIPT OF LIFE — HOW PREPARED Earthly. They live through everything in advance in The law of making good: “The picture of pain we the realm of spirit; then in the physical realm it comes have caused another person becomes the force that im­ to fulfillment___Thus are the forces which shape our pels the ego, on re-entering life, to make reparation. karma set in operation.”7 Thus the previous life has a determining effect upon the new life. The actions of this new life are in a certain Inscribed upon the soul The next stage occurs as way caused by those of the previous life. This orderly man gathers his new astral body during his descent to connection between a former and a later existence Earth. “It is the majestic experiences arising from the must be considered as the law of destiny. It has become pictures of the deeds of the higher Hierarchies which the custom to designate this law by the name of karma, are recorded by the Moon Beings and subsequently in­ a term borrowed from oriental wisdom.”5 scribed by them in our astral body when the time comes In the karma lectures we find in great detail how for the descent to another earthly existence.”4 “The these orderly connections operate from one life to the astral body is full of inscriptions, full of pictures. What next, or even over several lives. One such example is is known simply as the ‘unconscious’ discloses a wealth that sequence “love — joy — an open heart,” contrast­ of content when it is illumined by real knowledge.”6 ed with “antipathy — sorrow — stupidity,” a sequence of three incarnations. Our aim here, in this study, is to The picture we bear within us — the Guardian is clarify the process and the stages by which these com­ glimpsed. Shortly before incarnation, after man has pensations are brought about with the help of the gathered his new etheric body, a final preview occurs, Hierarchical Beings. now in the etheric world, the prebirth tableau of the coming life: “Before the attachment of the etheric body The Cosmos as Creator: By pursuing the process is completed, something extraordinarily significant oc­ of “creation,” we can visualize for ourselves how an curs for the human being who is re-entering physical Idea is transformed into physical reality. In the wonder existence.... Just as at death a kind of memory picture of man’s physical body, for instance, “each organ is pro­ of the past life arose before the human ego, now a pre­ duced and shaped by cosmic forces. In very truth man vision of the coming life presents itself. Again he sees a bears the stars of heaven within him. He is connected tableau which this time displays all the hindrances he with the forces of the whole Cosmos.”6 must remove, if his evolution is to make further pro­ The following description of the process of conden­ gress. And what he thus sees becomes the starting sation, in the creation of the human heart from the point of forces he must carry with him into a new life.”5 highest realms down to physical actuality, can very well illustrate the stages of preparation of man’s And thus the Earth cycle begins anew — with all destiny in a new life: “The forces streaming in the direc­ the treasures acquired by long years of work in spheres tion of Leo out of which the human heart is fashioned above through evaluation and re-design, through moral are purely moral and religious forces; in its initial enactment by these Mystery dramatists among the stages of development the heart contains only moral stars. Our biography, our life is ours, wondrous gift of and religious forces .. . . When man is passing through the kingdoms of Heaven — to make of it what we can. the Sun-region, these moral forces are taken hold of by the etheric forces. And it is not until man comes nearer to the Earth, to the warmth, that the final stages of preparation are reached; it is then that the forces which shape the physical seed for the being of soul-and-spirit M A N A N D COSMOS — INTERWOVEN who is descending, begin to be active.”6 IN D E ST IN Y Our need is to ever renew our thoughts about the Dynamics of the karma forces: So we begin with human being. Anthroposophy as a whole provides the new intentions. We then behold the great, awe-inspir­ means by which we can lift our view, ever again, from ing cosmic drama where the Hierarchies transform the what lives in the culture of the day to what man really fruits of human experience into new capacities and is and can be — as a creation of the Cosmos; an ego be­

l l AS ABOVE S0 BELOW we prepare, we live, we evaluate ing bearing within him an individual destiny, wrought archies work together with the souls of men who together with the Hierarchies in an existence prior to lived on Earth in their previous incarnations. The Sun birth. is actually the spiritual embryo of the Earth-life of Contemplating the child we can thus say: “For a the future.”8 being born of a mother has not arisen on the Earth; it is only the scene of action, as it were, that comes into Impelled by the stars within: We have lived-in existence on the Earth. A wonderful cosmic creation, the Cosmos, journeyed through the planetary formed in supersensible worlds, in the Sun-existence, spheres, guided and led by cosmic Beings. Now the incarnates into what is produced through physical fruits unfold on Earth from out of these same heredity.” 8 spheres, and we are guided by the self-same Beings through the cycles of our life, though now, for our The Sun as birth place: Our relations to the freedom’s sake, from totally below our consciousness. starry world, once so concrete with the Ancients “Looking backward upon the tableau of man, we per­ — yet so abstract for modern man, or often non­ ceive the Moon-sphere, the Mercury-sphere; from the existent, can be made real, consoling and strength­ 21st to the 42nd years the Sun-sphere, then the Mars- ening, once we learn to live in thought with the forces sphere, the Jupiter-sphere, the Saturn-sphere. We that work within man, from out the cosmos. The see that all these spheres have something to do with abode of those who have died, the abode from whence karma. Ordinary consciousness does not know that we came, and the birth place of future generations man has within him the workings of the Mercury- then take on actuality. “When we know what the Sun sphere, Moon-sphere, and so on. Yet karma is brought is in reality, we shall feel: Up yonder, where the glow­ into being by what is thus within man; he is impelled ing orb of the Sun moves through the Universe, is the by these forces to live out his karma in his own par­ scene where spiritual prototypes of future genera­ ticular way. ... And so, by virtue of his karma, the tions of men first take shape; there the higher Hier- whole being of man stands within the Cosmos, gives

12 expression to the Cosmos here on Earth — in one case “In human destiny we can perceive, firstly, the in this way, in another in that.”9 working of the Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai; then of the still loftier Sun Beings, Exousiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes; then of the Thrones who are concerned main­ The architects and shapers of human destiny: ly with the elaboration of karma in the Mars-sphere; Knowledge of how the drama of our life unfolds then of the Cherubim who elaborate the karma be­ through the influence of planetary forces, guided by longing to the Jupiter-sphere; and then of the Sera­ Hierarchical Beings, leads eventually to a deep-felt phim who work together with man at the elaboration attitude of acceptance. For in every human life, of karma in the Saturn-sphere — Saturn karma. In a despite the underlying order, there are periods of man’s destiny, in his karma, we behold the working of chaos on the surface, there is tragedy and suffering. the higher Hierarchies. This karma, at first, is like a That there is meaning as well to everything that veil, a curtain. If we look behind this veil we gaze at strikes us, that order emerges out of chaos, is the the weaving deeds and influences of Angeloi, Ar­ wisdom we eventually learn from life. “If man can suc­ changeloi, Archai, Exousiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes, ceed in taking his destiny earnestly, this experience Thrones, Cherubim, Seraphim.” will give him a strong and deep impulse to live in com­ “When we observe the karma of a human being munion with the spiritual world. And life itself will in the ordinary way, we see letters only; but the mo­ unfold in him a feeling for connections of destiny, of ment we begin to read this karma we behold the karma.”1 Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai and their mutual, inter­ The awakening feeling for the weaving of related deeds.... And the picture of a human destiny destiny will strengthen the moral realm of human life, is enriched beyond measure when earthly ignorance of trust in and responsibility towards the designers is transformed into knowledge of the Cosmic Alpha­ and builders of human destiny. “What we do with our bet, when we realize that the letters of the script are everyday consciousness, the intentions we form, and the signs and tokens of the deeds of the Beings of the the like — all this depends upon ourselves; but our higher Hierarchies. karma is shaped and fashioned by the Hierarchies “To a man who beholds it, the vista of karma as within us. They are the architects and shapers of an the shape taken by destiny in life is so overwhelming, entirely different World-Order belonging to the soul, so sublime and majestic that simply by understand­ to the moral sphere of life. This is the other aspect of ing how karma is related to the spiritual Cosmos he man, the aspect of the Hierarchies who are within will unfold quite different qualities of feeling and dis­ him. . . . What we call human destiny is therefore an cernment.” affair of the Gods and as such must be regarded.”1 “We are citizens not of the Earth alone but of the * land of the Spirits. The whole existence we have We would like to conclude this chapter with a spent between death and a new birth converges in final excerpt on Biography from the Breslau cycle, that which, on Earth, is enclosed within our skin. The which with one majestic sweep brings together really secrets of worlds are contained in a particular form all and indeed more than we have haltingly been able within this encircling skin. to say in this survey. “Self-knowledge is by no means the trivial senti­ For those wishing to pursue further the themes mentality of which there is so much talk nowadays. touched upon here but lightly — the great series of Human self-knowledge is world-knowledge.”10 Karma Lectures stands ready for study.

“If we really understand the destiny of a man, we also learn to understand the secrets of the world of Excerpts from lectures in Karmic Relationships, stars, the secrets of the Cosmos. But nowadays peo­ 1924, and from the book Occult Science by Rudolf ple write biographies without the faintest inkling Steiner: that something is really being profaned by the way in 1. Dornach, May 30, Vol II, lect. 25. which they write. In times when knowledge was held 2. Paris, May 24, Vol. V, lect. 6. to be sacred because it issued from the Mysteries, 3. Paris, May 23, Vol V, lect. 5. 4. Prague, March 31, Vol. V, lect. 3. nobody would have written biographies in the way 5. Chapter: “Sleep and Death.” that is customary today. Every ancient ‘biography’ 6. Prague, March 30, Vol. V, lect. 2. 7. Breslau, June 9, Vol VII, lect. 3. contained indications of the influences and secrets of 8. Paris, May 25, Vol. V, lect. 7. the world of stars. 9. Stuttgart, June 1, Vol VI, lect. 6. 10. Breslau, June 8, Vol VII, lect. 2.

The diagrams were drawn by Florin Lowndes.

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CREATIVE SPEECH: THE NATURE OF SPEECH ty. Michael’s new mission, now as “the countenance of FORMATION by Rudolf Steiner and Marie Steiner- Christ,” will bring the new Michael revelation through An­ von Sivers. Aphoristic records of courses on the throposophy. Under the preceding rulership of Gabriel, cultivation of Speech as an Art. Essays and notes natural science arose which brought us death of our culture from seminars and lectures. Translated by Winifred and loss of vision. The after-effects were carried into the Budgett, Nancy Hummel, Maisie Jones. First English spiritual world by the materialistic soul content of the dead, edition, Rudolf Steiner Press, London 1978. $7.95, resulting during the 19th century in a “second crucifixion,” a 240 pages. Distributed in the USA by Anthroposophic renewal of the Mystery of Golgotha for the Christ Being, Press, Spring Valley, N.Y. now in the form of an Angel, in the etheric world. Spiritual science, the new Michael revelation, will bring a new Christ- consciousness and His resurrection within the souls of men. “The world is the Word of the spirit; man is the Word These few words can only hint at the extraordinary of the world. When he becomes a servant of the Word he esoteric depth and directness of this lecture — a char­ must feel those forces through which he has been placed acteristic feature of all “London lectures” as though Rudolf in the Cosmos and allow these forces to hold sway within Steiner were speaking to the world beyond the confines of his spoken word.” (p. 29) Europe. These words are taken from the new translation of The publisher should be commended for making this Methodik und Wesen der Sprachgestaltung. It is a mar­ Michael lecture, long out of print, available to English- velous piece of work. Maisie Jones, one of the three trans­ speaking readers for the Michael centennial, as most other lators, confessed to eight years of striving to produce it. Michael lectures are at present out of print (with exception This shows in its clarity. of the Karma lectures). This timely contribution deserves The text gives us all of Rudolf Steiner’s speech ex­ our highest appreciation. The content can help us to estab­ ercises in English, with his succinct directions and ex­ lish a cognitive-moral relation, rather than a pictorial-aes- planations, taken from work with teachers, lecturers, ac­ thetic one, to the Creative Spirit of the Age. tors, and others who learned the new art of speech under — Gisela O’Neil his guidance. It includes essays and relevant excerpts from various lectures, courses, seminars, and from the work with Waldorf teachers at their faculty meetings in AN ESOTERIC COSMOLOGY by Rudolf Steiner. Stuttgart. A summary of 18 lectures in Paris between May 25 For teachers and those interested in Rudolf Steiner’s and June 14, 1906. Reported by Edouard Schure. new art of speech — this book is a must. St. George Publications, Spring Valley, N.Y., 1978. — Sarah Burton 133 pages. Softbound $7.95.

An Esoteric Cosmology does indeed occupy a uni­ que position in anthroposophical literature. CHRIST AT THE TIME OF THE MYSTERY OF Edouard Schure (1841-1929) stood already at the be­ GOLGOTHA AND CHRIST IN THE TWENTIETH ginning of this century at the height of his fame as a CENTURY by Rudolf Steiner. A lecture given in Lon­ French author, poet and dramatist. By then he had pub­ don, May 2, 1913, published together with “Occult Sci­ lished more than a dozen major works including The ence and Occult Development,” May 1, 1913. Rudolf Great Initiates (1889) and dramas attempting to recapture Steiner Press, London, reprinted 1978; $1.50. Distrib­ the lost cultic element of the ancient mysteries. He had uted in the U.S. by Anthroposophic Press, Spring Val­ heard of Rudolf Steiner through Marie von Sivers, the ley, N.Y. later Marie Steiner, who had studied acting and speech formation at the Comédie Française in Paris. A friendship In the anthroposophic literature, the London lecture of developed between them and it continued by way of a cor­ May 2 , 1913 is one of the best known, most often quoted lec­ respondence, mainly about spiritual matters, after Marie tures. It was there, 66 years ago, that Rudolf Steiner for the von Sivers’ return to Berlin. On one occasion, she asked first time brought to mankind the annunciation of the Mi­ Edouard Schure a particular question in connection with chael Being as the guiding Spirit of the Age. The historic occultism and he, unable to reply, referred her to Rudolf significance of this lecture has often been pointed out. Steiner in Berlin. It would appear that in this manner the The new Michael Age is compared with the previous first contact came about between Rudolf Steiner and the one, preceding the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, when later Marie Steiner. Subsequently, this led to a warm in­ Michael as “countenance of Jehovah” inspired mankind vitation from Edouard Schure requesting Rudolf Steiner towards an understanding of the descent of the Sun-Spirit to give a series of private lectures to a small circle of and His union with the evolution of the Earth and of humani­ friends. And so it was on this occasion in Paris in May

14 1906 that the two men met for the first time. In the fore­ cle of lectures (1906) I brought forth a perception which word to the course, Edouard Schure bears testimony to had required a long process of ripening in my mind. After I the extraordinary impression that Rudolf Steiner made had explained how the members of the human being — upon him though Schure was 20 years his senior. He physical body; etheric body as mediator of the phenom­ recognized immediately the master in Rudolf Steiner and enon of life; and the bearer of the ego — are in general became for many years one of his most devoted pupils, a related to one another, I imparted the fact that the etheric period which was to be clouded over only by a temporary body of a man is female, and the etheric body of a woman estrangement during the catastrophe of World War I. is male. ... The male and female elements were carried The lectures on Esoteric Cosmology were given on into connection with the mysteries of the cosmos. This the fringes of the International Theosophical Congress in knowledge was something belonging to the most pro­ Paris. To begin with they only drew a small group of foundly moving inner experiences of my soul; for I felt friends including a number of Russians, some well-known ever anew how one must approach a spiritual perception such as the author Dimitri Merejkowski. But as the days by patient waiting and how, when one has experienced went by, the French windows had to be opened so as to the ripeness of consciousness, one must lay hold by accommodate an ever growing number of listeners in the means of ideas in order to place the perception within garden. the sphere of human knowledge.” No shorthand report of these lectures in German has It may be relevant in this book review to quote what I ever been available; we only have the present account of said in the preface to the course: “It is perhaps not with­ these lectures reported by Schure in French, and now ap­ out significance that it was in Paris, where Thomas pearing in English for the first time. Edouard Schure’s de­ Aquinas had elaborated some seven centuries earlier his tailed summaries reflect in a most living way the quality Christ-oriented Scholasticism, that Rudolf Steiner gave that must have permeated the original. This, therefore, is his first course on an esoteric Christian Cosmology ap­ not a reporting in the ordinary sense of the word, for propriate to the dawn of the New Age of Light.” There is Edouard Schure was well able to understand much of the no doubt that this course reported by Edouard Schure deeper content out of his own inner development. Indeed, and belonging to the early work of Rudolf Steiner will find one senses that Rudolf Steiner must in these lectures a wide following both among the public interested in the have spoken very directly to him. The course contains so renewal of the spirit and among seasoned students of An­ much that one is at a loss to highlight the jewels. The throposophy. The publishers should be thanked for mak­ eighteen lectures take us through the whole of Spiritual ing this course, long out of print in the French original, Science in a systematic, yet also artistic way. A vast spec­ available for the first time in English. trum is spanned from the birth of the intellect and the — Rene M. Querido mission of Christianity to a penetrating consideration of the Apocalypse. And between his first and last lecture we hear about the mission of Manicheism, involution and evolution, Yoga in East and West, descriptions of the A GOLDEN STORY, by Daisy Aldan, published with a astral and devachanic world, of earthquakes, volcanoes grant from the National Endowment for the Arts: Fold­ and the will of man, and the central significance of the er Editions, New York, $5.95. John Gospel. The student of Anthroposophy will find in this course some quite new and surprising revelations, Has Daisy Aldan written a love story about a young and many thoughts that can quicken the soul to medita­ man and an older woman, or is this “Golden Story” a modern tion. “Greek imagery compares the soul to a bee, and this fable about virtue and consciousness? The foreword, “Give is much truer to the fact. Just as the bee emerges from me a smile, and I’ll tell you a golden story,” from The Golden the hive and gathers the juice of flowers to distill and Ass, by Apuleius with which Miss Aldan begins her book make it into honey, so does the soul come forth from the gives us the clue, for the initiate knew that a tale of trials spirit, penetrates into reality and gathers its essence told under the guise of a surface story of love or adventure which is then born back again into the spirit.” ... “In was known as a “golden story.” western initiation, the neophyte is free; the master simply A Golden Story focuses on Gabriel, the young rejected plays the role of an awakener. He does not try to poet-lover of Mila, the older woman rhythmist. Is he not the dominate or convert, he simply recounts what he himself struggling soul coming to consciousness, and is Mila not the has seen. And how ought we to listen? There are three anima-Aphrodite, or the higher Self which each one seeks? ways of listening: To accept the words as infallible It is significant that when their trip to Greece is can­ authority; to be skeptical and fight against what is heard; celed because of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, destiny to pay heed to what is said without servile blind credulity leads them to Communist Yugoslavia, to a monastery of the and without systematic opposition allowing the ideas to seventh century, turned-hotel, on an island off an island work upon us and observing their effects. This latter is where Mila’s attack of asthma further imprisons them, far the attitude which the pupil should adopt towards his from home, far from their “spiritual community,” far from master in western initiation.” their cultural heritage. It is in this constrained setting that Rudolf Steiner himself in The Story of My Life refers the young soul of Gabriel strives to free itself. to this cycle in the 37th chapter of the autobiography Each character is a question, each an answer. Gabriel which he wrote shortly before his death. “In the Paris cy­ represents the mortal seeking to free himself from illusion

15 of his “self-woven enchantment,” tested by the self-desig- saying, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into nated “hierophant,” Mila. To discover the question, to find heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven freedom from dependency is to discover the individual “I” will come the same way as you saw Him go into Heaven.” within oneself. To think as Gabriel thinks is to become a The image of the cloud is a recurring motif in the Bible, questioner. To quest toward Mila-Aphrodite, is to journey, one laden with meaning. To fill the formula “the Ascension to see beyond her human tangibility, and to realize that both of Christ” with true content, Friedrich Benesch leads us question and answer lead toward consciousness. through the life cycle and morphology of cloud formations. Conversation between them is carried on in English and In the interplay of the elements of warmth, air, water and German, he speaking the former, she the latter, and thus the earth, in the forms and growth of the cumulus from a small situation enters further into myth where both struggle to white puff to the great anvil-headed thundercloud, awake. Benesch is reminded of the plant. In the vast swirling mo­ Daisy Aldan asks: “How does one awake, free of the tions of the cyclone moving from west to east continually dragon?” drawing new masses of air into its center, he discovers not a Her voice echoes: endurance, control of the tongue, plant-like, but rather an animal-like activity and form. sincerity, balance, “objectivity with warmth,” dignity born Through a sensitive Goethean investigation we discov­ of compassion. The careful reader will note the archetypes er with Benesch the place of the clouds as between the earth on this voyage of transformation: the journey through and the heavens, as between the mineral and plant king­ water, the castle of Mljet, the dung, the lightning and doms. In the clouds we see one of nature’s many “inter­ thunder, the constellations and meteorites, the roses, the mediate realms.” This quality of “inbetweenness” is ex­ Grail, a central underlying theme of the story. plored and developed in a manner which shows it not as an It is no wonder that Saul Bellow, another seeker, wrote attribute or place but rather as an activity. It is what flows of this book, between man and his fellow man, between mother and child, “... The subject fascinated me. Yours is a novel about between the grieved and the comforter, that binds and love which is surprisingly remote from eroticism. It really is heals. What stands between mineral and plant as cloud, or love that you describe, and of a sort that seems odd at first. between plant and animal as blossom, becomes a metaphor But then there is no oddity in these pure feelings. All the od­ or, as Benesch says, a parable for activity for the past and dity is in us, in our impure mingled emotions, and this oddity future deeds of Christ. It is the very power and essence of is recognized by our buried knowledge, our knowledge of the the Resurrection itself which has overcome the fragmenta­ pure state, which we never succeed in bringing up for ex­ tion and disintegration of death and which therefore heals pression ...” and flows between, binding one to another. It is here that And Nona Balakian, Senior Editor of the N Y Times Benesch sees the activity of Christ in nature as well as in Book Review stated, “It’s better than any novel I’ve read human affairs. It is as Goethe states: “That which concili­ this year, and many other years too ... elegant and wise!” ates, which is gentle ....” Folder Editions, which gave us such fine translations of In this profound little volume, Friedrich Benesch, sci­ the work of Albert Steffen, is to be congratulated once again entist/theologian, priest of the Christian Community since for offering us a worthy chalice to strengthen ourselves 1947 and now leader of its seminar in Stuttgart, brings toward becoming free, humane and individual. Anthro- together Goethean science and Christology. Such a syn­ posophists particularly will recognize that this novel is a thesis can stand before us as an anticipation of the time creation of someone schooled in the spiritual science of when “the Christ will be found working in the very laws of Rudolf Steiner, who indeed may be recognized as the chemistry and physics” (Steiner), when a true Rosicrucian “teacher” referred to in the story. Thus art — in this in­ Christianity becomes a force in world evolution. stance, literature — carries the healing impulses of anthro­ — Arthur Zajonc posophical striving to a world saturated with violence. — Diana Cohen, New York City

ANTHROPOSOPHICAL REVIEW, edited by J. Mans­ field, P. Matthews, C. Schaefer, S. Schaefer, S. Thal- ASCENSION by Friedrich Benesch. Edinburgh, Floris Jantzen. Published three times a year by the Execu­ Books, 1979, 47 pages, $2.25. Distributed in the U.S. tive Council of the Anthroposophical Society in Great by St. George Book Service, Spring Valley, N.Y. Britain. Annual subscription $6.50 + $1.80 postage. Single issue $2.50 + 75c postage. Distributed in the The Ascension is the leave-taking of Christ. In the forty USA by St. George Book Service, P.O. Box 225, Spring days since His resurrection, He appeared to both the Valley, N.Y. 10977 disciples and the multitude to teach and even to share food with them. This intimate ministry of Christ comes to an end with the Ascension, and yet in His final words He declares The Anthroposophical Review is the successor to the His eternal presence — “Lo, I am with you always, to the Anthroposophical Quarterly. It “aims to provide a space for close of the age.” After He had given the disciples His final discussion, research and creative activity arising out of An­ counsel, “As they were looking on, He was lifted up, and a throposophy.” cloud took Him out of their sight.” Two angels appeared The theme of the first issue “Inner Striving — Outer then as men clothed in white robes and spoke to the disciples Work” is introduced by Christopher Schaefer. It is followed

16 by an article “Work as a Unique Earth Experience,” by not currently available. This issue contains the first lecture Alexander Bos, and a Symposium of four contributors. of the four that were given to the workmen at the Goethe­ Other sections with various articles include “The Arts,” anum between the 28th of June and the 18th of July 1923, “Everyday Matters,” “Questions of Freedom,” “Working entitled “How Do We Learn to See into the Spiritual with Anthroposophy,” “The Language of Nature,” and “Re­ World?” In it, Rudolf Steiner points out the necessity for the views.” development of “independent thinking” (selbstaendiges It is planned that each issue will contain a lecture by Denken) and the means by which one can attain it. Rudolf Steiner which was not published previously in The editors have set themselves a high standard. It is English translation or, if published previously, one that is sincerely hoped that they can continue to realize their goals. — Nathan Melniker

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REPORT BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL three representatives from each region to meet with the TO THE ANNUAL MEETING Executive Committee of the national Society July 6-8 in Ann April 21, 1979 — 211 Madison Avenue, New York City Arbor for the purpose of preparing recommendations to the Council as to how the Council might reorganize itself in ac­ Note: A report freely rendered from what was actually cordance with the emerging reality of regional admini­ said at the annual meeting. strations within the American Society. These recommenda­ tions will be presented to the Council when it meets again in New York City next February. If accepted by the Council, Fellow Members of the Anthroposophical Society — either with or without modifications, they will then be Dear Friends: brought for approval to the Annual Meeting next Easter. On behalf of the Society’s Council I should like to bring Should they necessitate changes in the existing By-Laws, it you up-to-date on the progress made during the past year will be the Council’s responsibility to submit the proposed toward a more decentralized form of administration for our changes to the membership. If ratified by a majority of all Society. You may remember from my report to last year’s members of the Society who vote within three months, the Annual Meeting (see Newsletter, Summer 1978) that the amended By-Laws then become operative. Council decided at its meeting in February ’78 to step back In all discussions of regionalization a clear distinction and to meet only once during ’78-’79 in order to allow an op­ has been made between the tasks and responsibilities of na­ portunity for the three regions — West, Mid-West and East tional and regional administrations. As has been previously — to explore possibilities for more active collaboration on a stated, the relation with Dornach, the handling of member­ regional basis. This has now happened and at the Council’s ship dues, the publication of a national Newsletter, of the meeting last February Hermann Rubach, Bay Area, Richard Journal for Anthroposophy, the maintenance of a central Lewis, Sacramento, and Sam Glaze, Los Angeles, reported library, the acceptance and processing of new memberships, on the initiatives taken within the Western region which at this time, all need the support and the presence of the clearly showed the desire of the membership for closer American Society as a national branch of the General An­ cooperation and for some form of regional administration throposophical Society. The tasks of the regions lie much within the national Society framework. The same trend in more in the sphere of communication between groups and the Mid-West was clearly evidenced by the report made by with isolated individual members, in the initiating of re­ Ernst Katz. What was new this year was an initiative spear­ gional members’ conferences, in the circulation of speakers headed by Janet McGavin (Kimberton Hills) to bring the and otherwise active members, in the publication of regional Council members within the Eastern region together to ex­ calendars of events and of information, etc. plore the needs and possibilities for closer regional col­ Accompanying the movement toward decentralization, laboration. This meeting is scheduled for May 19 here in it is becoming increasingly clear that we need to find new New York City. Beyond this the Council agreed to invite ways to give expression to experience within the economic 17 realm so that new possibilities for the support of spiritual Michaelmas Conference at the Goetheanum — Plans for work and for the enhancement of the experience of the the conference of active members with the Vorstand in Dor­ realm of brotherhood in anthroposophic life may be devel­ nach from September 24-30, 1979, are going forward and I oped. Beginnings have been made in this direction. am glad to report that the response to the appeal for $5,000 But, at the same time, it is equally necessary that we to match the sum which the Society will provide toward a find new ways to permit free consultation among active travel fund has been generous. It is hoped that about 50 members in the spiritual sphere. If constructive initiatives members of our Society will attend and that this meeting are developed in the spiritual as well as the economic will serve as a focus for the spiritual life of Anthroposophy spheres, it will become more and more the task of the ad­ in preparation for the twenty-one years between now and ministration, both at the country wide as well as the the year 2000. regional levels, to maintain a healthy balance within the The Needs of the Times — As we face the years ahead, organism as a whole. can we not agree that two urgent tasks are incumbent on us The perception and maintenance of such a healthy as students of Spiritual Science and members of the An­ balance between the spiritual and the economic, between throposophical Society? Although by no means our sole the realms of public, membership and creative spiritual tasks, it would seem to me that the strengthening of group work, and between the needs and potentialities of anthro­ life and the awakening and training of genuine “occult dis­ posophical life within the geographic regions, becomes the crimination” are of central importance. Group life, as we central responsibility of administrative activity. know, has the task of cultivating the life of soul on the basis In thinking of regions, we should be aware that new life of spiritual scientific work. Through it we prepare spir­ is springing up in two parts of this country which may not itually for the next epoch of culture. Active study, artistic yet be in a position to sustain a certain regional autonomy work, and creative work at the level of the School of but which are, nevertheless, experiencing the first stirrings Spiritual Science are the life blood of all true group work. in this direction. They are Texas, where the first major an­ To discriminate in spiritual matters so that we learn to throposophical conference was held in Austin in March with recognize more and more clearly the essential nature and over a hundred members in attendance, and the Rocky tasks of the anthroposophical path seems to be the only sure Mountain area with its center in Denver. We shall watch the and creative way to meet the countless situations which progress of Anthroposophy in these areas with great in­ arise to confuse, distract and discourage us from working to terest and hope, and shall help to further it in any way we fulfill the need of mankind in the world today. Here again, it can. is through genuine group work that we can receive our The Goetheanum News — At the meeting of the General greatest help. In active give and take we learn to correct our Secretaries of the English-speaking branches of the General one-sidedness, to extend and deepen our knowledge, to Society last October in Dornach, John Davy (Great Britain) transform our karma. Here we work as social beings out of proposed that the Goetheanum News in its present form Spiritual Science. We need not then attack and defend so should be discontinued and a Goetheanum News Service much as go our own way with an inner openness of soul but should be formed in its place. This service would have the with perseverance and courage. task of forwarding news of events at the Goetheanum, of Thanks to All Who Have Served the Society During communications from the Vorstand, from the Sections, and the Past Year— Once again it is my grateful task as Chair­ of transmitting reports which would give distant members man of the Council to express thanks on behalf of the Socie­ in English-speaking countries a feeling for the pulse-beat of ty to all those unnumbered members who have taken initia­ life in Dornach. Such communications would be published tive on behalf of Anthroposophy during the past year. To either as a special section within the national Newsletters the Executive Committee, the staff at the Society’s center, to the group leaders, active co-workers, workers in special or as special supplements to them. This proposal has been discussed by the Council and has been approved in principle. fields, to the editors of the Newsletter and the Journal to The details as to how it will actually be done have yet to be the artists, the conference organizers, the writers and worked out. It is intended that the new system shall start in speakers, and to the quiet member who carries Anthro­ 1980. The reasons for this change are twofold: the burden of posophy in her or in his heart, we want to extend sincerest cost to the Goetheanum for the publishing and mailing (in­ thanks on behalf of the Society and of Anthroposophy itself. dividually by air mail) of the present News and the in­ — Henry Barnes equities which exist through the fact that the Canadian and American Societies are the only ones in which each member receives the Goetheanum News free of charge (that is, as part of the national dues which, in both cases, are far below MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING the level of what the Goetheanum needs in Swiss francs). In April 21, 1979 at 211 Madison Avenue, New York City the other English-speaking Societies each member must subscribe individually for the Goetheanum News, which re­ sults in the fact that only a fraction of the members in the MORNING SESSION British, Australian, New Zealand and South African So­ John Root, executive director, welcomed everyone, and cieties receive the News at all, thus defeating its purpose of Sophia Walsh spoke the Foundation Stone Verses. John serving to keep the membership in touch with the center in Root then read the names of members who had crossed the Dornach. We will keep you informed as plans progress. threshold and recited a verse for the dead.

18 Executive Director’s Report There was a show of hands to accept the budget. No one Mr. Root reported that 168 people joined the Society opposed it. this year. 29 have died, 18 have resigned, 7 have transferred to other countries, and 7 have transferred to our Society. Confirmation of the Executive Committee Total membership now stands at 1813. The proposed Executive Committee: Hermann Rubach to represent the West Report of Meeting of the Treasurers of the National Societies Ernst Katz to represent the Mid-West in Dornach, April, 1979 John Root, executive director Siegfried Finser, treasurer, reported that Gisela Siegfried Finser, treasurer Reuter, treasurer of the Society, at this meeting had given a Henry Barnes, ex officio. description of how the Goetheanum prepared a production of Lessing’s Nathan the Wise as one example of work being The Executive Committee was confirmed. carried on there. Several co-workers spoke of the one-and-a- half year’s preparation, and it was characterized as a pro­ AFTERNOON SESSION cess that created spiritual energy. Prepared reports about various activities and areas were presented after lunch. Before raising the dues per member for the support of the Goetheanum from 80 Swiss francs to 100 Swiss francs, co-workers at the Goetheanum did a lot of research on infla­ Fiftieth Anniversary of Waldorf Education in America tion in each country, on currency value exchange, size of Patricia Livingston, chairman of the faculty of the Ru­ membership and each country’s ability to pay. It was found dolf Steiner School in New York, described the events that that the Germans would find it easy to pay 100 Swiss francs took place this year in celebration of the school’s 50th an­ and that the Americans would find it very hard. There has niversary. An exhibit entitled “Awakening Intelligence,” been an attempt in the past for countries to carry a major composed of the work of children from several Waldorf part of the support of the Goetheanum. The time when the schools and designed by Thorn Zay with frames built by United States did this was well recognized and remarked Hans Kunz, has been traveling throughout the country. upon. Now Austria, Switzerland and Germany will try to There have been many weekend workshops on such subjects carry the main support. as the teaching of history, mathematics, eurythmy and music. A weekend symposium at Teachers’ College, Colum­ Meeting of General Secretaries and Annual Meeting bia University including talks by Alan Howard, Henry in Dornach Barnes, and John Davy was followed by an assembly at Mr. Finser, having attended the meeting of general Kaufmann Concert Hall presenting the work of students secretaries on Mr. Barnes’ behalf, reported that this from five Waldorf schools. In May, work of the students of meeting discussed the motion coming to the General the Rudolf Steiner School will be on exhibit at the Metro­ Meeting asking that the 1974 agreement between Herbert politan Museum of Art. A book, Educating as an Art, edited Witzenmann and the Vorstand be ratified. Mr. Finser by Ekkehard Piening and Nick Lyons, with articles about described in great detail the issues that this motion raised many aspects of Waldorf education, was published. and also what went on at the General Meeting as a result of Mr. Franceschelli, speaking from the floor, announced a this motion. special double issue of the magazine Education as an Art, Mr. Barnes, in commenting on this report, said that one copies of which may be obtained from Green Meadow could sometimes experience more anthroposophy in the School, Hungry Hollow Rd., Spring Valley, N.Y. 10977. difficulties than in the agreements. Rudolf Steiner stressed Youth Work that we must begin to understand our own karmic back­ grounds. Karmic streams never united before are united in Richard Anderman reported that a group of about the Anthroposophical Society. It is a living mystery drama, seventeen younger anthroposophists have met once at Cam- and how can we have drama without difficulties? A creative phill in Pennsylvania, once in Detroit and will meet again in exchange makes anthroposophy more alive. Spring Valley in May to exchange ideas about youth ac­ tivities and concerns. These meetings arose out of the Al­ Chairman’s Report. See above. legheny Youth Conference in June, 1978 (see Newsletter, Autumn, 1978) and the Kings Langley International Youth Proposed Budget 1979-80 Conference (see report in this issue). Mr. Finser presented the proposed budget (see en­ closed sheets) that had been prepared by the Finance Ad­ visory Committee of the Society after a meeting with the Report from Washington, D.C. leaders of the various activities who requested funds from Preston Barker reported that members in the Washing­ the Society. He explained that the dues only covered the ton area meet once a month to examine the local work and costs of administration and services and that two years ago how it meets the challenge of the times. A steering commit­ the Finance Committee had decided to spend capital to pay tee meets every three weeks to help provide a deepening. for the activities in order to generate more money. Each The members are preparing for an event at Michaelmas, year large deficits are projected, and actually only small 1979, and they publish a newsletter to communicate the ones have occurred. Gifts for activities have made up the dif­ considerations necessary for this event. ference.

19 Pennsylvania Initiative 6. Bari Lynn Hirsh CA 90026 Marjorie Giesseman reported that members engaged in 7. Judith Lowell England various anthroposophical activities in Pennsylvania such as 8. Linda Block NYC 10028 the Christian Community, the Waldorf school, the Camphill 9. Linda Jolly CA 95060 communities, and the eurythmists as well as other anthro­ 10. Rev. and Mrs. Truett Tidwell TX 77081 posophists now meet to celebrate the festivals. 11. Margaret McKnight OH 45239 12. Mrs. Henry Schenck FL 32789 Speech Work 13. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Byron LA 70118 Sophia Walsh reported that she has conducted a speech 14. Harland McPherson NY 10977 training course two hours daily at Highland Hall Teacher 15. Morton Akse CO 80907 Training Institute in Los Angeles. She has given three 16. John Myers FL 32083 courses of six weeks each. Each course has had a theme that 17. Raymond Kalbach PA 19518 is connected with inner development in order to help the 18. Mrs. Daniel Leisher NC 28315 students become stronger supporters of anthroposophic en­ 19. Caroline Emont NJ 08540 deavors. They have practiced Greek athletic exercises and 20. Susan Landau OR 97526 dramatic exercises given by Rudolf Steiner. It will take six 21. Mary Ann Leadingham NM 88201 of these six-week blocks to complete a year’s work of speech 22. K. Sundar Das TX 78249 training. 23. Paul Prevost OR 97603 24. Adrianna de Bryn DC 20008 Letters from Sponsors: Joel Kobran had sent in a question 25. Gabrielle Gregg NY 10977 for the agenda concerning the necessity of a sponsor to write 26. K. Elizabeth Hoffman NY 11569 a letter about the new members. He was told that it is a re­ 27. Kim A. Snyder IL 60614 quest, not a requirement, and that the Executive prefers to 28. Gloria Collins PA 19082 hear from the member himself. Library Coverage: Ursula Weber had sent in the question: “To what extent is it appropriate for us as a Society to cover the literature of other movements in our national library?” NEW MEMBERS: Fred Paddock answered that the process of under­ standing Anthroposophy demands that we know not only Lydia Wieder Robert M. Walker our own tradition but also our western spiritual history. The Transferred from Germany Palos Verdes, Ca. bulk of the library funds is spent on acquiring everything in English and German by Rudolf Steiner and works by Ger­ Roland W. Sherman Lawrence N. McKee man anthroposophists which may go out of print. A very Transferred from Switzerland Orangevale, Ca. small amount is spent on building up a western esoteric Sandra Sherman Frederick P. Spaulding, Jr library as a background to Anthroposophy. Transferred from Switzerland Chicago, Il. The meeting adjourned at 4 p.m. and was followed by a Gisela Wendlinger Alice Spaulding delicious buffet supper prepared by Frank and Mona Transferred from Germany Chicago, Il. Keimig. After this the eurythmists presented a program which was very much appreciated. Robert S. Horner Christine A. Badura McLean, Va. Fair Oaks, Ca. Respectfully Lucie J. Howard Virginia A. Butt submitted, Chicago, Il. Nancy Root Springfield, Or. Jon A. Howard Betty B. Pitcairn Springfield, Or. Granada Hills, Ca. WHO CAN HELP TO LOCATE MEMBERS Maria Tuthill Walter Pflanze WHO HAVE MOVED? Carmichael, Ccl Louisville, Tenn. Peter Alvarado Jerome A. Cooper Below is a list of members whose address is unknown to New York, NY. Fort Collins, Colo. us at the present time. Together with the name we will list the last known address (state and zip code). If you can help Timothy M. Brink Helena W. Maclay us, please notify Fred Paddock at the Society’s headquarters. Copake, N.Y. San Francisco, Ca. 1. Mr. and Mrs. Gunter Scholter Germany Elizabeth Scherer Sally Gorham 2. William Lops AK 99701 Hempstead, N.Y. Fair Oaks, Ca. 3. Alice Sadtler CA 93101 4. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schmitt Germany Donna M. Downing Susan E. Seidman 5. Louise Chapin CA 90277 Carmichael, Ca. Ann Arbor, Mi. 20 Gayle Davis Thomas A. Clark IN MEMORIAM: Sacramento, Ca. Amherst, Mass. WILLIAM TALBOT GARDNER Elizabeth H. Morse Alan R. Lovett Dallas, Tx. Detroit, Mi. February 13, 1916-January 1, 1979 Kathleen S. Bishop Dennis Kane A significant pioneering effort to bring an anthropo­ Northridge, Ca. Albuquerque, N.M. sophical impulse to America through the arts of eurythmy and speech came to a close on New Years Day as WTilliam Barbara A. Wallace Charlotte R. Blaine Talbot Gardner crossed the threshold in his 63rd year in the Palos Verdes, Ca. Detroit, Mi. New York studio he had directed for thirty years. Tom Mellett Kathleen Williams His goal as a eurythmist and speaker had been to Austin, Tx. Chatsworth, Ca. develop these arts until they were as effective, as etherical- ly alive and as able to speak to an Anglo-American eye and Dorothy Stanley Rosemary E. Look ear as they had become in Central Europe when performed Gamersville, N.Y. Grosse Pte. Park, Mi. in German. The degree to which he had succeeded, par­ ticularly in the years from 1959 to 1966 when his studio gave Julia R. Aiken Charles T. Hudson dozens of performances and scores of readings in New York Silver Spring, Md. King of Prussia, Pa. and the surrounding area, attests to the breadth of his talent Tom Bufano Lisa York and the thoroughness of his preparation for this life-task. Laurel Md. Troup, Tx. Phyllis Jepperson Alice L. Okorn Carmichael Ca. Napoleon, Mo. Anne V. Jurika Jesus N. P. Perlas III Fair Oaks, Ca. Washington, D.C. James R. Wetmore Patrick Wakeford-Evans Detroit, Mi. Carmichael Ca. Francina M. Graef Holly P. Colangelo Berkeley, Ca. Tijunga, Ca. Donald A. Primavera Laura Birdsall Fair Oaks, Ca. Wilton, N.H. Vincent Siracusa Mark D. Birdsall L.I.C., N.Y. Wilton, N.H. John H. Fuller Mary W. Price Moorhead, Mn. San Rafael Ca. Gloria Havlick Eileen McGarrigle New York, N.Y. Austin, Tx. Martha J. Gelarden Gene L. Sakaguchi Grosse Ile, Mi. Fair Oaks, Ca. Elizabeth Simons William Gardner was born in Colorado as the youngest Wichita, Kansas of seven children, all marked individualists, and spent part of his childhood in the forests of Washington and the fruit groves of Florida. His schooling took him still farther away — a year in France, then to a preparatory school in Penn­ sylvania, where in his chosen field of English he had as teacher the distinguished writer Archibald MacLeish. A few months at Robert Hutchins’ University of Chicago de­ termined that his career would not be academic. He left for Dornach in 1935 at the age of 19 to study eurythmy and speech and did not return home until 1948, the better part of 14 years later. His talent as a eurythmist impressed Marie Savitch, the director of the stage group, who performed duets with 21 him, and Else Klink, who recalls her harmonious collabora­ which drew forth respect but less gratitude for the studio’s tion with him in Stuttgart. His recitation had less outlet in efforts. Dornach, although he was assigned minor roles in stage Yet these efforts were significant. William Gardner at­ productions. However, he took part in tours to England and tempted to awaken interest in the spiritual stature of nearby cities. He maintained a friendship with Annemarie writers like Melville, Thoreau, Tennyson, MacDonald Dubach, who wrote an appreciation of the eurythmic experi­ through frequent readings, and to introduce to an American ments contributed by his studio to the first international public the poems or essays of Albert Steffen, Christian eurythmy conference in 1966. The dignity and earnestness Morgenstern or Rudolf Steiner in new translations, in im­ of his Dornach years were commented on by Albert Steffen. pressively flowing speech forms, often with moving The Elocution and Eurythmy Studio, founded in New eurythmic interpretations. In the 1950’s he directed am­ York in 1949 when he was 33, was a cooperative venture of bitious scenes from Goethe’s Faust — the Prologue in four Dornach-trained artists and several American co­ Heaven and the Ariel scene — and the old Norse initiation workers, that provided him the secure footing he needed to ballad, the “Dream Song of Olaf Asteson.” Later, his per­ pursue his goals in America in his own independent way. It sonal feats of recitation included three-hour readings of Ten­ had its origins in Dornach shortly after the war, when the nyson’s “In Memoriam,” impressive renderings of Shake­ English eurythmist Elizabeth Raab-Van Vliet and her Amer­ speare sonnets and Shelley’s “Skylark” (one breath to a ican husband arrived in Dornach. An intensive collaboration stanza!). An etheric lightness and flow, at peace with con­ in English ensued, midnight rehearsals (the only time the ceptual clarity, marked both his speech and eurythmy. Many stage was free) of the Prospero and Ariel scenes from Shake­ of his studio performances were memorialized with great speare’s Tempest, which became a kind of signature for the care in hand-printed programs with original graphic designs. painstaking and ingenious quality of the studio’s work in It is inevitable that a man who identifies himself so years to come. He developed, after years of energetic prac­ strongly with his own creation must suffer the fate of its de­ tice in Dornach with Lydia Wieder, the difficult feat of duo cline. Having held the studio in his single grip for 17 years, recitation, and this formed the core of the studio speech he brought some of the fruit of its original work to Dornach chorus. This group was followed to America by Hanni in 1966, was rejected by the larger part of the audience, and Schlaefli, who after a period of work with the studio left it to in the same year the active existence of the studio came to form the New York Performing Group. an end. Shortly thereafter his marriage to one of his co­ A further ideal of William Gardner, beyond rooting workers in the studio was annulled and his two children left eurythmy in the English language, was to provide for it the him. He withdrew with worsening health to work with a few quality of recitation and music that would give it wings. The remaining pupils, reciting the texts that had been the sub­ curriculum of the studio therefore included singing, stance of the studio’s work 15 years before. His heart ail­ recorder ensemble, solo-speaking, chorus and eurythmy, as ment made him increasingly dependent upon the faithful well as study of American and English authors, of Anthro­ support of his friend of over 30 years, Lydia Wieder. posophy and other occult teaching. In most of these ac­ This life, lived exclusively under the star of the forma­ tivities he took the leading role. His teaching was clear, tive power of his art, became a lonely one through the un­ thorough and effective; each class or rehearsal was well- compromising demands it made on others. But the ideals rounded, and left the student with the sense he was always William Gardner cultivated were tended faithfully to the in touch with the fundamentals of each art. very end. He was preceded through the portal of death by In his performances William Gardner was a perfection­ several of his intimate co-workers in the studio — Regina ist, and there was no detail of lighting, costume, gesture or Stillman, Thelma Dillingham, Elizabeth Van Vliet, Hanni nuance of voice that was not worked over and over again un­ Schlaefli. We may be sure that the devotion poured by so til it was just right, then rehearsed until the whole was many into this early vessel for the arts in America is being flawless. This standard of intense work, which he was able transmuted into new and more fruitful forms for the future, to exact from his studio co-workers, who could rehearse and that the shapes impressed by the work of this karmic together several times a week, made it rare that others group into the ether of America are serving those who carry could collaborate in its performances. This led in time to a the impulses of speech and eurythmy into the decades ahead. certain exclusiveness, an aloof pride in his accomplishments, — Theodore Van Vliet

OTHER MEMBERS WHO HAVE CROSSED THE THRESHOLD OF DEATH:

Lona Koch, June 3, 1979 Lola B. Heckelman, Feb. 27, 1979 Charles F. Drew, March 25, 1979 from Chester, N.Y. from Julian, Ca. from New York, N.Y. Joined the Society in 1932 Joined the Society in 1960 Joined the Society in 1960

22 REPORTS

FLASHES FROM THE PAST — a 1935 Report is also a devout Catholic, refers to his work as a “Sacra Rap- presentazione,” rather than as an “opera.” What heightens In the January 27, 1935 issue of the English-language our interest even more is that the supportive role of the Anthroposophic News Sheet published in Dornach, Switz­ chorus of movement necessary to portray first the fallen erland, there appeared the second part of a two-part report angels, and later, in the second act the good angels guarding on a lecturing trip that had been recently concluded by three the Garden of Eden, has been realized through participation travelers from Dornach to the United States. The article is of the Eurythmeum Stuttgart under the direction of Else by one of the travelers, Gunther Wachsmuth, who was, at Klink and Wolfgang Veit. that time, one of the members of the Vorstand of the That this should be so in a city world famous for its bal­ General Anthroposophical Society. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer and let is amazing! What is equally amazing is the enthusiasm on Hermann von Baravalle were the other members of this trio the part of many, though naturally not all, with which the ac­ of traveling lecturers. tual eurythmy has been greeted. The following newspaper article was quoted in Gunther As the best example of this that I could quote, let me Wachsmuth’s report. describe the following: Several nights after the premiere a From the Chicago Daily News, October 25, 1934: question and answer period was arranged and attended by “Three distinguished visitors from Switzer­ between 150 and 200 interested people. Present for this oc­ land are occasioning a very small, very select din­ casion were the director of the Stuttgart Opera, the assist­ ner in Chicago on Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. ant director of the production along with the conductor, the John Alden Carpenter* are giving it at their home singer who portrayed Satan, the actor who portrayed the on Lake Shore Drive. The guests of honor are for­ blind Milton, as well as the composer himself. The question eign scientists and educators, traveling in this was asked from the floor concerning how it had come about country to spread the theories of life and growth that eurythmy had been selected in the first place. The which they teach at their school colony at Dornach, answer showed us that the idea had come from the opera ad­ Switzerland. ministration who, feeling that the ballet would be inap­ “President Glenn Frank of the University of propriate, had hit upon the idea of eurythmy and prevailed Wisconsin is coming down from Madison to join the repeatedly upon Else Klink until she gave in and consented after-dinner conversation, President and Mrs. to undertake the project. At this point Penderecki himself Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago, and intervened and although he seems to have known nothing Thornton Wilder are among the other guests. about eurythmy itself — since he called it pantomime at one “Mr. Wilder met some people at the home of point — spoke of it in the most glowing terms. Indeed he said Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos, N.M., who interested that the eurythmy had better satisfied his artistic inten­ him in the Dornach Movement, of which the three tions than had the dance in the preceding productions in visitors are the prime exponents.” Chicago and La Scala in Milan. — That the whole Nathan project Melniker should be so successful is fortui­ ♦American composer and wholesale merchant, 1876-1951. tous. Indeed many a conservative anthroposophical eyebrow has been raised in these parts and many a contrary opinion expressed. Certain it is also that this is not eurythmy in the ordinary sense of the word. In spite of all this, the fact re­ THE EURYTHMEUM STUTTGART mains that in the midst of this tumultuous, controversial and PARTICIPATES IN THE GERMAN PREMIERE sometimes profoundly disturbing work of modern art, OF “PARADISE LOST” eurythmy was able to sustain and even further the under­ lying spiritual content which lies at the basis of the plot. On April 28, 1979 the first German performance of This is again a testimony to the courage and pioneering “Paradise Lost” by the Polish composer, Krzystof spirit of Else Klink. It was also such courage that led to the Penderecki, took place on the Wuerttembergische Staats- recent tour which brought the Eurythmeum Stuttgart to so theater in Stuttgart, Germany. This opera, the libretto of many of you in America. which was adapted by Christopher Fry from the monu­ In view of this tour I thought that those of you who are mental epic of John Milton, was commissioned by the Lyric friends of the Eurythmeum would want to know of these Opera of Chicago and received its world premiere there last developments and might appreciate having them reported fall, to mixed reviews. The gathering of the press from all through the eyes of two Americans closely connected with over Europe bore testimony to the importance of this Ger­ the work here. My wife, Martha, was the rehearsal pianist man premiere, and although the reviews again seem mixed, for the eurythmy part of the opera (she also accompanied the overall critical impression was definitely positive. the tour to America) and I am in charge of the music educa­ The story of the creation and fall of man is one which tion at the Eurythmeum. naturally would be interesting to anthroposophists. It is pre­ After four Stuttgart performances, this production will sented here as a mystery drama and indeed Penderecki, who be taken to the Munich Festival in July and to the largest

23 Eastern bloc Festival, in Warsaw, in September. (eurythmy, music, speech, and drama) and reports on youth — Alfred H. Bartles, Stuttgart, Germany work and other initiatives presently going on in Europe and America. It became increasingly difficult to find enough time for all the meetings, presentations, and initiatives to take place, and some of us experienced a day of solid ac­ tivities from early morning until midnight — and after! INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CONFERENCE It remains to be seen how what has been placed in mo­ KINGS LANGLEY, ENGLAND tion by this renewed youth activity will continue to grow Dec. 27, 1978-January 4, 1979 and evolve. One feels a new, fresh spirit trying to come to A major international anthroposophical youth event expression ever more forcefully. It is worth noting that took place this past winter during nine days of the about a fourth of those attending were Americans. A new Christmas holy nights at the New School, Kings Langley, anthroposophical youth newsletter for North America has England. Approximately 180 active younger anthropo- been begun to facilitate communications (if interested in sophists, feeling an inner sense of responsibility for the receiving this, write to: ORC, 5920 Guilford, Detroit, MI future of the anthroposophical movement, met together 48224). Also, several smaller youth groups have met to con­ from all over the world to come to a deeper understanding of sider the further development of this impulse in North the 1923 Christmas Foundation Meeting of the Anthropo­ America. Wish us well! — David Adams sophical Society and the Foundation Stone Meditation. Many pressing issues of the anthroposophical movement and of youth in particular were considered in order to create a base for an international co-working of youth activity. The international preparatory work for the conference had begun two years prior to the event. Each morning opened with a moving recitation of the YOUTH CONFERENCE IN FAIR OAKS/ Foundation Stone Meditation. This was followed by a series SACRAMENTO, May 18-20, 1979: “The Individual of vital and inwardly stirring lectures by Joergen Smit and and Society — Social and Antisocial Forces BCJ Lievegoed. Professor Lievegoed painted vivid word- in Life Today” pictures of the various mystery streams of the past, trying to show us how major streams of past spiritual life flowed together into the Christmas Foundation Meeting, emerging It is not possible to narrate the events of an oc­ as the seed of new mysteries appropriate for the changed currence so as to repeat the experience, especially an conditions of our time. event of spiritual significance. Yet, one must try and Joergen Smit concentrated on the stage-by-stage devel­ hopefully the striving becomes the goal. The event was opment of Anthroposophy itself. He then tackled directly the third West Coast Youth Conference at Rudolf Steiner several current problems raised spontaneously at the con­ College in Fair Oaks, California. It started innocently ference: the need for a more cooperative working together enough, there being a two-year tradition, and we simply and consolidated strengthening of forces, the creation of began to pitch in and help. The theme for the conference new social forms for anthroposophical activities, the ques­ came out of an ongoing study of the faculty. It was cer­ tion of leadership and independent initiatives, and the tainly appropriate, for our class had had its share of so­ future tasks of the Anthroposophical Society. Many ex­ cial crises, and this particular study spoke to our inner­ perienced that questions which had arisen within them dur­ most concerns. ing the conference were answered by Joergen Smit’s words. What happened was, in retrospect, something quite Later in the morning and again in the afternoon we unusual and, if one dare to use the word, magical. There made our way to the working groups. Each of these eleven was from the start an atmosphere of caring and restraint. smaller groups had the task of finding its own way of work­ We had hoped that by making the conference revolve ing together on a particular topic related to the overall con­ around conversation rather than lectures that we could ference theme, by creating a close relation between study achieve a real working understanding of social and anti­ and conversational work and artistic activity. It was chal­ social forces. As it happened, this was an appropriate in­ lenging and marvelous to try to meet in this way a group of tuition, for people really began to listen to one another individuals with the most diverse biographies, nationalities, with a loving ear. It was evident from all the group dis­ and connections to Anthroposophy. The work was alternate­ cussions that prejudices rarely got in the way. People ly intensive, difficult, constructive, inspiring, painful, and talked to each other about their deepest experiences and joyous — an experience of lasting value. were met with compassion. It was as if many people were A different developmental process could be exper­ able to fashion the grail within them, and spiritual in­ ienced during the late-afternoon “plenary sessions,” which sights, blended of many colors, flowed from heart to progressed from rather external reports on working groups heart. Yet, the experience was filled with clarity, helped and general announcements to vigorous debates on con­ by seed thoughts brought by Rene Querido, Franklin temporary anthroposophical issues to, on the final day, a Kane, and Carl Stegmann. more integrated group conversational process. Each even­ —from a report by Patrick Wakeford-Evans ing was filled with a lively mixture of artistic presentations for the Conference Committee

24 DAY BY DAY AT THE GOETHEANUM- tion for Social Science, the Mathematical and Astronomical FROM PUPPETS TO PHILOSOPHY Section, and the Section for Form-giving Arts (a weekend for painters). A motley crowd it should be, but don’t be too What strikes the visitor to the Goetheanum (and im­ sure you could tell them apart. Here are artists of thoughts presses the resident student as well) is the glut of auto­ among the philosophers and social therapists among those mobiles usually filling up the space around it. Is some special wielding paint brushes. Unannounced is a conference for conference going on? Or is it just a token of the regular ac­ eurythmists as well. tivity going on in most of its rooms and halls? It is not easy This activity, this growing focal point in Dornach for to tell. We inspect the cars for clues. Their license plates the cultural and practical interests of our members around show the initials of many a German city and Swiss canton, the world, points to two facts. The Goetheanum as a single now and again the contrasting color and shape of a more dis­ building has long become too small to answer the needs of tant land — France, Holland, England. One is heartened to its members and the increasing response from the world. feel the attraction exerted by this building on so many peo­ Many meetings or courses simply cannot take place here ple. Yet now and then, if one is commuting from the other because there is no space. There is as a consequence a dou­ side of the Rhine, one would like to find a parking place ble striving — to encourage some of the schools at the closer by. Goetheanum to find independent quarters (and support) and But who are all these people? During a recent weekend to clear the way for a building program to supplement the an unfamiliar type appeared — faces one had not seen often outgrown facilities in the great Bau. The master plan for at the Goetheanum before. They were puppeteers, holding a developing the open land around the Goetheanum has been public conference with lectures and performances by ten dif­ on display for a year, but permission from the local ferent puppet theaters from Germany and Switzerland. On authorities to proceed has not yet been obtained. display were colorful groups of handsomely carved and Meanwhile the building itself is undergoing surgery. clothed puppets — marionettes hanging on their strings, The whole west front is muffled in scaffolding and trip ham­ hand puppets, two-dimensional puppets moved by plexiglas mers are knocking out sections of concrete that in fifty years staves for shadow plays. One saw more little children than have become unsound. The patching of the north and south usual at the Goetheanum, mothers explaining the puppets, sides of the building is completed, but it has taken over two children pushing and pulling at the staves, smiling faces years. This has been done with such skill that the scars hard­ dreaming into the imaginative world of fairy tales. Three to ly show. But in the process students and colleagues have had five performances were going on simultaneously, several to work against a sound barrier that often brings their ac­ times a day. tivity to a halt. We look forward to the day when calm However handsome their puppets, an observer senses returns again, the face of the Goetheanum looks out un­ that these people with their little theaters are experiment­ veiled toward the west, and farther off —to the north and ers, not professionals. They are drawn to a puppet stage east — the sounds of building construction might begin. because they love children and wish to give them imag­ — Theodore Van Vliet inative nourishment in a fitting way, because they have learned through Anthroposophy to respect the imagery of fairy tales with their deeply spiritual and genuine psycho­ logical content, and because as adults they still want to play, ATTACK AND DEFENSE OF ANTHROPOSOPHY build scenery, create atmospheres out of light. Two of these groups have developed as initiatives within the Christian On two recent occasions when Rene Querido was speak­ Community, others within groups of the Anthroposophical ing about Waldorf Education in Californian cities, two or Society. three unidentified persons outside the hall distributed leaf­ The value of such puppet plays for children who seldom lets with slanderous statements about Rudolf Steiner, An­ hear fairy tales at home or in school is unquestioned. But throposophy, and the Waldorf schools. The gist of their con­ they are building bridges for their parents as well — back to tent was that the schools were thoroughly evil institutions, their children, back to an imaginative world. We sense with that Anthroposophy was a false and injurious form of oc­ some of the enthusiasm of Felicia Balde (cf. The Souls’ cultism, and that Rudolf Steiner was a very objectionable Awakening, Scene 3) how such plays in future will move us, character. These points were made at considerable length when the full possibilities of gesture and speech are real­ and in great detail. Needless to say, their truth content was ized. close to zero. Each week a part of the population shifts at the Goethe­ One of the obligations of an “active member” is to de­ anum. New faces appear; a different atmosphere surrounds fend Anthroposophy against slander. Seldom do we have a their discussions or demonstrations. A conference may br­ case crying so loudly for such action. Mr. Querido, after care­ ing rough farmers or gentle players of harps. It is one of the ful reflections, prepared the defense that we print below. physiognomic games in Dornach to guess from these faces We present it to the members as a model of what should be which of all the concerns of mankind is being given its orien­ said under such circumstances. tation through Anthroposophy just now. The letter was written in January 1979. Four months This may be a harder task in the days approaching. later, Mr. Querido reports: “We have not heard directly Four conferences have been scheduled simultaneously — of from them nor — to the best of our knowledge — have they the working group in Philosophy and Psychology, of the Sec­ continued their activities against us.” — ed. 25 Christian Life Ministries able literature exists on the subject and performances which 5828 Robertson Avenue are always open to the public are held from time to time in Carmichael, CA 95608 major cities of the world. 8. It is most regrettable that under “Summary of Stein­ Ladies and Gentlemen: er’s Teachings” most blatant distortions of the anthro­ posophical impulse are to be found. There again, they could Your brochure “What Is the Waldorf School?” has come easily be corrected. to our notice. We fully appreciate that you are free to hold 9. The Waldorf School Movement found its inception whatever views you consider right, yet we want to take this after the First World War in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1919. It opportunity of correcting some of the statements which you has grown to a worldwide movement of independent edu­ make and which either are erroneous or misleading. May we cation-embracing almost 180 schools all over the free point out: world. The Waldorf School offers from nursery to grade 12 1. That Rudolf Steiner was not born into a Jewish fam­ an education of the growing child respectful of the true ily. Both his parents were Catholic, and he adhered in his dignity of man. It is open to children whose parents are of faith until he was in his late teens. He never rejected Chris­ any persuasion. We do not teach Anthroposophy in our tianity; in fact, the Christ Event is regarded by him as the schools, and our striving is to help the child in his growth central event in the history of mankind. He strove towards a towards adulthood to become a self-reliant and responsible non-denominational form of Christianity. individual. Though Religion is not taught, the faculty shares 2. The early life of Rudolf Steiner is not shrouded in a profoundly Christian view and practice of life. The school mystery, as you say. You may wish to consult some of the is open to inquirers and should you be interested in a visit, authoritative biographies that have been written about him, please do not hesitate to contact us. e.g. “A Scientist of the Invisible” by Canon Dr. Shepherd, Finally, I would wish to say a word about your sources: late Dean of Worcester Cathedral; also Rudolf Steiner’s The article about Rudolf Steiner in the Encyclopedia Britan- autobiography, “The Story of My Life.” In addition, there nica is generally reliable. The other two books you mention are at least a dozen reputable biographies published in Ger­ would seem to be of a dubious occult nature. We take this op­ many (as yet untranslated) by such well-known personalities portunity of including some material which, I hope, will as­ as Dr. Zeylmans van Emmichoven, Dr. Herbert Hahn, Dr. sist you in forming a more accurate picture of our Friedrich Hiebel, and others. You may also wish to consult, endeavors. Should you be interested in further information, “Work Arising from the Life of Rudolf Steiner: Education — please do not hesitate to consult us. Medicine — Agriculture — Arts — Architecture — In­ dustry,” by John Davy (Rudolf Steiner Press). Sincerely, 3. It is incorrect to state that Rudolf Steiner was at any Rene M. Querido time connected with the Illuminati. Co-Director, Waldorf Teacher Training 4. Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy is deeply permeated Administrator, Sacramento Center by the Christ Spirit and he saw the modern human being as having to struggle with the double face of evil: the Luciferic and the Ahrimanic; and that man’s goal in Evolution was to be permeated more and more by the Christ Spirit, so as to gradually transform and overcome the two extreme powers U.S. CAMPHILL COMMUNITIES RECEIVE 1979 of evil. We enclose a brief article “What is Anthroposophy?” SERVICE AWARD OF THE AMERICAN for your guidance. ASSOCIATION ON MENTAL DEFICIENCY 5. It would go far beyond the format of this letter to ex­ press the central position that Steiner attributed to the The award ceremony took place in Miami, Florida on Christ Event. You may wish to consult Steiner’s lecture May 31, 1979 at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American cycles on the Apocalypse, the Gospel of St. John, the Gospel Association on Mental Deficiency. Past AAMD Award reci­ of St. Luke, the Gospel of St. Matthew, the Gospel of St. pients include President John F. Kennedy, Mrs. Muriel Mark, as well as the lecture cycle entitled “From Jesus to Humphry, and Whitney Young, Jr. Christ.” All these are in print in English. I think you would Here is the wording of the citation: find that even a cursory study of these volumes would lead to a very different conclusion from the one you have stated SERVICE AWARD in your leaflet. Camphill Villages, U.S.A. 6. With regard to the book “Knowledge of the Higher Camphill Villages. Yours are communities which re­ Worlds” by Rudolf Steiner, I would suggest you consider mind us what many more of our cities and towns could be looking at the original and you will not find any reference to like in the best of all possible worlds. The very act of sharing world revolution and world domination, neither to the this award illustrates the reason for it, and the reason why it Kundalini. The book is solely concerned with the develop­ does more to announce the wisdom within this Association ment of higher forces dormant within the human soul by than your desire for the recognition. You have made it clear way of an inner moral Christian teaching. to all that your special mission is to demonstrate that people 7. Eurythmy is an art of movement to make visible both of diverse interests and needs can engage in a life sharing speech and music. It has none of the characteristics that you experience, and that service to our fellows is derivative have described. There again, a sufficient amount of reput­ from such an experience and not vice versa. Your creations

26 are proof that an intentional village can be normal if the Donald Hall taught painting, Sophia Walsh led us in main purpose of that community is not only to serve others speech, and Kari van Oordt guided us in eurythmy. In the but to live and share together, to serve each other. subsequent conversations each day there was no leader and Forty years ago, as the Holocaust was kindled in the no one needed to be led! Christy Barnes, substituting for Ar- heart of Europe and tested with mixed effect the conscience via Ege, helped to set the stage with a lecture the first even­ of the world, a group of young people near Aberdeen, ing and many seed-thoughts were planted then. The other Scotland answered the nightmare with a dream. The Camp- evenings were taken up by an illustrated talk by Donald hill Movement was born. Under the guidance of Dr. Karl Hall on the trends in modern art, a presentation of Dame Koenig, these refugees from Nazism established a com­ Felicia’s fairy tales from Rudolf Steiner’s Mystery Plays by munity dedicated to the value and importance of each Sophia Walsh, who also arranged an Easter program of human being, regardless of race or creed, of social status or eurythmy, poetry and music (thanks to Betty Hamilton) with degree of intellectual endowment. Twenty years ago, one of an address by Henry Barnes. those present at the original community, Carlo Pietzner, The form and substance of all these events wove them­ brought the now-flourishing movement to the United selves into the fabric of the conversations. There is a chal­ States. Today, of between 50 and 60 Camphill centers all lenging enigma in artistic activity, especially for anthro- over the world, there are three Camphill communities in the posophists, for it arises in the dream consciousness and is United States which share this Association’s Service Award killed by the activity of the untransformed intellect. for 1979: Children’s Village in Beaver Run, Pennsylvania, Therefore can art really be talked about? And yet, is it not Camphill Village in Copake, New York, and Camphill Village our task to bring it into the clear light of consciousness? By in Kimberton, Pennsylvania. pursuing the processes by which the artist deals with the The achievements of Camphill are based firmly on the ripening forces of time, with form and substance, motion and work and vision of Rudolf Steiner. His influence is quietly relaxation, subject and object, macrocosm and microcosm, evident in every aspect of each community, from education breathing and transformation, we began to grasp living to architecture, from agriculture to worship. The wisdom of methods by which the modern artist can work to transform Rudolf Steiner’s influence is felt by every visitor to these both the intellect and the subconscious artistic approach of splendid communities in which life is shared equally by the past to a clear, creative ego consciousness, one that puts everyone. About half of the residents would be considered him on the road also to the transformation of evil. handicapped elsewhere, yet no one is handicapped at Camp­ Certainly, many helpful thoughts were expressed at hill because service to fellow human beings is part of every­ these meetings, and perhaps it was the experience of all pre­ one’s life. At Camphill, each person has meaningful work sent that our practice in the arts of eurythmy, speech, and and holds a valued place in the lives of others. painting enabled us to bring a heightened awareness to the For bringing to life a vision of how human beings can art of conversation. And is not conversation “more quick­ live more purposefully, yours has been a contribution that ening than the light”? goes beyond a field and touches everyone. By proving again Thanks are due to the Hawthorne Valley School and to that all human beings are valuable and that the future for the Rudolf Steiner Farm School for the use of their each of us holds nothing but good, you deserve more than buildings, to Jeanne Bergen for the organisation, to Bill what a mere award is permitted to convey. Simons for some wonderful meals, and to hosts in the village for making this “happening” possible. — Mary Rubach, Berkeley, Ca.

A WORKSHOP ON ARTISTIC METHOD AT HARLEMVILLE, NY - Easter 1979 SACRAMENTO CENTER FOR For the fourth time in the last three years, artistic ANTHROPOSOPHICAL STUDIES has a new name: method was the theme of a conference extending over three RUDOLF STEINER COLLEGE and a half days. This time there was a special emphasis on its relationship to the transformation of evil. The Sacramento Center for Anthroposophical To one coming from California for the first time, this Studies was founded on Washington’s Birthday 1976 by a was a doubly enriching experience, for patches of snow still group of friends under the inspiration of Carl Stegmann, lay on the ground and there was not a leaf to be seen on a and began with a special emphasis on American Studies. tree. One could imagine the cold of the winter just past and Now in its third year, with more than 50 students, the wonder how the warmth of the reception that visitors re­ Council felt after most careful consideration that the bold ceived on arrival was related to it. step of a new name was necessary. The Council decided All those who attended, about 25, were well acquainted on Rudolf Steiner’s birthday 1979 to re-name the Center with Anthroposophy and had been encouraged to prepare “Rudolf Steiner College.” This became effective as of by prior reading. All were present at every event, and the Easter 1979. This step had been long prepared and care­ group was only split for one period each day to make paint­ fully planned. We received full support from the Depart­ ing in a limited space practicable. The smallness and ment of Education — California State, which in November cohesiveness of the group gave a special quality to the con­ 1978 had granted us Final Course Approval for our Teach­ ference. At least the opportunity was there of really er Training Program. meeting everybody. We presently offer a full-time Foundation Year in An­

27 throposophy and a full-time Waldorf Teacher Training performance during the Waldorf teachers conference. Program. Evening courses and conferences on American Of major interest in recent months have been the var­ Studies and related subjects are woven into the year. The ious serious attempts to found new Waldorf schools — es­ courses include a wide spectrum of the sciences and pecially in Northern California. Parents, friends and mem­ humanities, and special emphasis is placed on a variety bers have created small and in some cases very steady of artistic activities, such as eurythmy, music, drama, nuclei towards the birth of new foundations in San Fran­ painting; courses in biodynamic agriculture, handcrafts cisco, Los Gatos, Pasadena, Nevada City, Paradise/ and projective geometry also form part of a broad curricu­ Chico, in addition to various seedlings in Oregon. Ex­ lum. perienced Waldorf teachers, such as Nancy Poer, Betty Rudolf Steiner College owes much of its growth and Franklin Kane, Rene Querido, and also members of within a comparatively short time to the warm support we the faculty of Rudolf Steiner College have been active in have received from other anthroposophical activities in helping these difficult ventures. In this area of the coun­ the area, particularly from the Sacramento Waldorf try alone there is a most urgent need for Waldorf teach­ School, the Faust Branch of the Anthroposophical So­ ers. Also on the Hawaiian Islands the work is growing, ciety, and the Christian Community. Rudolf Steiner Col­ and the founding of a third Waldorf school is envisaged. lege aims at responding to the needs of young people For further information write to: Rudolf Steiner College, who are seeking a more encompassing view of life, by 9200 Fair Oaks Blvd., Fair Oaks, CA 95628. way of the spiritual scientific path that quickens and en­ — Rene M. Querido livens the whole human being. We have a strong faculty and welcome guest lec­ turers from far and wide. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES IN THE — Rene M. Querido SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA This has been an eventful year. Members have ex­ perienced a new way of working together both locally and NOTES ON DEVELOPMENTS IN CALIFORNIA — with members from other areas on the West Coast. An In­ SACRAMENTO AREA itiative Committee of five members including a repre­ sentative of each of the four regions in the Bay Area was The Faust Branch of the Anthroposophical Society in formed in January 1978. This ultimately evolved into a Sacramento has presently about 120 members. At the re­ Working Group of thirteen members who have committed quest of members, the Branch meetings have become themselves to meeting as often as is necessary to plan pro­ weekly events on Wednesday evenings on the premises grams and discuss administrative problems. So far there of Rudolf Steiner College. The special character of the have been seven meetings and they have been very encour­ monthly meetings remains; but particularly younger aging. This development has gone alongside the movement members have shown considerable initiative in wishing to foster cooperation between the different centers in Cali­ to deepen their understanding of the Society by meeting fornia. more often. A meeting with representatives from Honolulu, Van­ This initiative was an outcome of the Regional Con­ couver, New Mexico, San Diego, Los Angeles, Sacramento, ference held in Fair Oaks, February 23-25, 1979. [See report and the Bay Area at the West Coast Members Conference in Spring 1979 Newsletter.] and Council Meeting in Berkeley in September 1977 was Mainly under the auspices of the Sacramento followed by a conference in Los Angeles in September 1978, Waldorf School and Rudolf Steiner College, we had the and there were the seeds sown for the conference in Sacra­ visit of Francis Edmunds and Frances Woolls, both of mento in February 1979. With the move towards region- whom made key contributions during the Conference of alisation there is a growing sense that the Society is being the Waldorf teachers in the West, February 17-21, 1979, fully incarnated on the West Coast for the first time. There held at the Sacramento Waldorf School. is a heightened sense of responsibility and realisation that it Hans Gebert was a guest more recently and gave a can only be what we make it. Joergen Smit’s lecture in May most stimulating three-week course in projective 1978 is memorable if only because he brought home to us geometry at Rudolf Steiner College. In addition he taught that the spiritual Goetheanum is wherever there is activity. at the Sacramento Waldorf School and gave public lec­ We shall continue to ponder the question “Is the Anthro­ tures at the Faust Branch of the Society. posophical Society shell or seed?” For the past three years weekly public lectures were In January 1978 the theme for the public conference in held regularly under the auspices of the Sacramento Berkeley was “The Question of Evil and the Christ Faust Branch. Although we have noticed a steady in­ Impulse.” Attendance was lower than in previous con­ crease among the audience, we have not yet been able to ferences. Those who helped to organise a conference at interest the general public. Stanford University in October with the theme “Health, The Institute for Living Arts has contributed in mak­ Nutrition, and Education for the Future” were, however, en­ ing therapy and the arts more accessible to a larger com­ couraged by the number of participants and the quality of munity in this area. the participation. Ilse Kimball’s eurythmy course has attracted atten­ Four lectures under the title “Who was Rudolf tion, and she played a central part in organizing a very fine Steiner?” given in Berkeley between January and April fol­

28 lowed by two further evenings on festivals drew altogether Both of these lecturers combined inspiration with prac­ about forty people. In the fall three lectures under the title tical suggestions in a helpful way. “Knowledge of the Self” were given at the new location at Beredene Jocelyn spoke on “Destiny of Life’s Un­ 445 Colusa Ave., Kensington. The Waldorf evenings ar­ folding,” expanding the conference theme through com­ ranged in May and June and again in November and Decem­ prehension of the planetary influences in life’s stages. Each ber drew a good number of people, but the unpredictability of the lecturers met informally with special interest groups and drop in attendance has given rise to the earnest ques­ Saturday night. tion “Should such attempts to awaken interest in Waldorf Truus Geraets introduced eurythmy in an afternoon Education in the East Bay have priority over other ac­ workshop which was indeed “An Experience in Visible tivities?” Speech and Tone.” At its conclusion the adults were invited Artistic activities included monthly eurythmy to observe her work with a small group of young children. workshops until May in Berkeley followed by weekly classes The conference concluded with a eurythmy perform­ beginning in September. Classes are also now being given in ance on Sunday afternoon. The variety and beauty of the San Francisco. Sophia Walsh gave an invigorating speech program gave a remarkable impression of this “new art.” workshop in March. Water color painting has been offered Assistance with reading, music, and lighting was ably pro­ through most of the year. In October, the performance of the vided by members of the Texas groups. Appreciation and Eurythmeum at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland was an genuine interest in eurythmy were evident from audience event without precedent. There was a standing ovation in an enthusiasm. almost full house, and not all the newspaper reviews were The atmosphere of the whole conference was one of har­ unfavorable. monious working together. St. John’s Day and Michaelmas were celebrated by Three weeks later an Easter meeting was held in Kerr- members and friends, Easter as well as the Christmas ville for a brief festival celebration combined with a follow- meeting was for members only. A St. John’s Day celebration up discussion of the conference. Many messages of appre­ had not been attempted before, but the consensus was that ciation had been received by the chairman. It was heart­ we should try again. ening news that all financial obligations had been met. The This report would not be complete without reference to first Texas conference was a success. the many meetings arranged by local members in San Fran­ — Mary Ann Logan cisco preparatory to opening a Waldorf School in the fall of this year. The statement of income and expenses follows: Income Expenses NEWS FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS Dues ...... $ 718.00 Lecturers ...... $1,220.50 Special Contributions . 1,694.79 Rent ...... 1,026.50 Here in Austin there is a growing amount of anthro­ Collection P rin tin g...... 387.59 posophical activity. Presently, we have three groups meet­ at L ectures...... 1,065.16 Postage ...... 581.21 Miscellaneous ...... 306.78 ing: a general anthroposophical study group, a Waldorf TOTAL $ 3,477.95 TOTAL $ 3 ,5 2 2.58 education study/action group, and a group studying bio­ dynamic agriculture. A lending library with some 150 titles —fr om a report by Hermann C. Rubach has been established and is being used regularly. Much active work is being done toward the opening of a Waldorf school. A non-profit corporation, The Rudolf TEXAS CONFERENCE, March 24-25, 1979 Steiner School Association of Austin aims to inform the public about these schools and to raise the needed funds. New stimulus was given to the growing work of An­ Two members are planning to take the teacher’s training throposophy in Texas by the first public conference held in course and to return to Austin to teach. Monthly lectures Austin at one of the historic hotels. There were over a hun­ are being offered to the public. dred registered for the full program: “The Me-Generation It is hoped that our activities will gather many more and Man’s Quest for the Ultimate Self— A Destiny Con­ helping hands to carry on the work of Anthroposophy. ference.” As many as 140 people participated in parts of the — from a report by Eileen McGarrigle events, many of whom experienced the work of Rudolf Steiner for the first time. Efficient chairman was Robert Walker of Houston, RUDOLF STEINER SEMINARS ANNOUNCE: whose untiring efforts actually brought about the confer­ ence. A musical setting for the lectures under the direction Participation in “Festival for Mind — Body — Spirit,” of Bob Dudney provided harmonious balance, as well as Sept. 26-30, 1979, Coliseum, Columbus Circle, NYC. Exhibitor pleasure. Booth #G5 (sale of books, Weleda articles, toys). Diethart Jaehnig’s challenging opening lecture, “Man “The Rhythms of Nature and the Life of the Growing Between Animal and Angel,” was resolved by his final lec­ The— Waldorf Approach,” Sebastopol, Calif. Oct. 19-20, ture on “Man the Redeemer.” 1979. Werner Glas led his audience through “Stages in the For further information contact Mrs. E. H. Bishop, 83 Quest for Identity” and “Karma With and Without Medita­ Franklin St., Englewood, N.J. 07631. tion.”

29 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 1979-80

1977-78 1978-79 1979-80

INCOME Dues 42,857 50,586 57,000 N.Y. Contrib. to Bldg. 2,216 1,500 2,500 Gifts & Contribs. 25,502 30,000 25,000 A Other 14,921 12,000 13,000 C Total Income 8 5 ,4 9 6 94,086 97,500

ADMINISTRATION • M a iling 1,697 2,000 2,500 Office Supplies & Tel. 4,999 4,000 5,000 Office Salaries 21,953 24,000 3 1 ,000 B Accounting & Legal Fees 3,833 4,000 4,500 Payroll Taxes 1,271 1,500 1,700 Publicity & Promotion 1,221 2,000 2,000 Exec. Comm. Exp.) Council Exp. ) 6,722 5,000 Regional Office Exp. 2,000 4,000 D Michaelmas Conf. Tvl. Sprt • 5,000 E Misc. , 15? 250 700 Tota1 Admin. 43,899 4 6 ,750 57,400 FACI L I T I ES Heat, Light & Maint. 6,351 6,000 7,000 Bldg. Sal aries 9,386 10,500 11,000 Payroll Taxes 543 700 900 Insurance 3,073 3,000 3,200 Total Facilities 19,353 20,200 22, TOO

SERVICES Newsletter 8,575 8,000 10,000 Library 312 400 1 ,000 Total Services 8,887 8,4oo 11,000

REGIONAL OPERATIONS Midwest Region 4,000 Western Region 2,000 Total Reg. Op. 6,000

Total Expenses 72,089 75,350 96,500

4 Oper. Gain (Loss) 13,407 18,736 1,000

Net Exp. of Activities (20,335) (18,750) 35,670

Net Operating Loss ( 6 , 928) ( 14) (34,670) (To be paid from Capital)

In the fiscal years the following monies were sent to Dornach:

1976-77 1977-78 1978-79 Contributions 10,329.87 10,234.61 1,395.00 Dues 22,532.00 17,617.00 24,443.00 (12/31) SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES REQUESTS

Actual Est. Actual Request Recommended Maximums 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 1979-80 APPROVED ON-GOING

Eurythmy Association of North America 6,445 2,000 8,970 8,970 Mystery Drama Group 1,503 2,500 3,750 3,750 School of Eurythmy (Spring Valley) 5 ,000 5,000 7,000 7,000 Class Readers (420) 500 1 ,000 1 ,000 Rudolf Steiner Seminars 5,681 5,000 17,200 G 7,200 (plus $10,000 raised) Journal for Anthroposophy 1 ,136 2,000 1 ,300 2,000 (through gifts) Artistic Method Conference (HarlemvilIe) 500 500 500 500 Speech Training (Los Angeles) 500 750 750 750 21,185 Publication Fund and 4,500 Budget 3,000 Miscellaneous Fund 2,000 Budget 4,000 3 ,5 0 0 24,750 47,470 34,670 OUTSTANDING LOANS

Dr. Incao (interest free) 3,500 (paid 500 1/6/79) Drs. Rentea (interest free) 5,000 Rudolf Steiner Farm School (5% Int.) 5,000 F Weleda, Inc. (interest free) 5,000 Total 1 8, 500" NEW REQUESTS Sacramento Capital Improvement 0 - 30,000 6,000 one time capital gift Youth Work 1 ,000 1 ,000 Total Budget Effect 35,670 Notes : A. Includes money paid by Anthroposophic Press for the sale of books at 211 which previously was deducted from the clerical salary costs. B. N o w reflects full salaries. C. Includes dividends and interest on all bonds and securities now in the Society's name. D. See new accounting section below. E. This amount will be supplemented through a special appeal for contributions by members. F. This original loan of $10,000 (at 5%) has been 50% repaid. G. Includes compensation for a full time administrator.